In this paperback reprint, a brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian
St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court in this gripping
historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the
Dead Lie.
London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the
bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a
snowdrift. Jane Ambrose's ties to Princess Charlotte, the only child of
the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, panic the palace,
which moves quickly to shut down any investigation into the death of the
talented pianist. But Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife,
Hero, refuse to allow Jane's murderer to escape justice.
Untangling the secrets of Jane's world leads Sebastian into a maze of
dangerous treachery where each player has his or her own unsavory agenda
and no one can be trusted. As the Thames freezes over and the people of
London pour onto the ice for a Frost Fair, Sebastian and Hero find their
investigation circling back to the palace and building to a chilling
crescendo of deceit and death . . .