London: July 1812.  How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? This book begins with the delivery of a dead body to Paul Gibson, retired army surgeon/anatomist .  He’s especially anxious about this body, as the young man in question supposedly died in his sleep due to heart failure and Paul is eager to dissect the body to learn more about such a condition.  However, upon close examination he discovers that the man didn’t die of natural causes, […]

The fourth book in the series jumps into action fairly quickly, with the deaths of eight young women at Magdalene House, a Quaker refuge for prostitutes wishing to reform.  A subsequent fire burns the place to the ground in order to disguise the murders, but it’s clear to Hero Jarvis that things aren’t what they seem.  Hero is a young woman who has made brief appearances in the previous books – she is the daughter of Lord Jarvis, a man who has been a fierce […]

This is the third outing for Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and it’s quite a bit more gruesome than the last two.  Someone is murdering and mutilating young men, leaving their bodies to be found at dawn with strange objects in their mouths.  Sir Henry Lovejoy, Chief Magistrate, has asked Devlin to help out with the case since Devlin’s keen intellect and attention to detail served well on two other occasions to solve the crime.  At first, Devlin is hesitant to get involved – he […]

What happens when your god dies? Sebastian wondered. When someone is your sun and moon and stars, and then you discover something, something that reveals a hitherto unknown weakness so fundamental, so shattering that it destroys not only your trust in the other person, but your respect, too. The second book in the St. Cyr series begins with a beautiful young wife of a marquess found partially dressed…and dead in the arms of the Prince Regent during a party at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.  […]