The "rich period detail [and] riveting action"* C. S. Harris
delivers in her Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series reaches new heights as
the aristocratic sleuth navigates dangerous political waters to bring a
murderer to justice...
Regency London: July 1812. How do you set about solving a murder no
one can reveal has been committed? That's the challenge confronting C.S.
Harris's aristocratic soldier-turned-sleuth Sebastian St. Cyr when his
friend, surgeon and "anatomist" Paul Gibson, illegally buys the cadaver
of a young man from London's infamous body snatchers. A rising star at
the Foreign Office, Mr. Alexander Ross was reported to have died of a
weak heart. But when Gibson discovers a stiletto wound at the base of
Ross's skull, he can turn only to Sebastian for help in catching the
killer.
Described by all who knew him as an amiable young man, Ross at first
seems an unlikely candidate for murder. But as Sebastian's search takes
him from the Queen's drawing rooms in St. James's Palace to the
embassies of Russia, the United States, and the Turkish Empire, he
plunges into a dangerous shadow land of diplomatic maneuvering and
international intrigue, where truth is an elusive commodity and nothing
is as it seems.
*The New Orleans Times-Picayune