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Why kill the innocent a Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery

"In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits. London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful...

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Main Author: Harris, C. S. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Berkley, 2018.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series ; bk. 13.
Subjects:
Nobility > Crimes against > Fiction.
Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > George III, 1760-1820 > Fiction.
Regency fiction.
Mystery fiction > England.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Summary: "In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: 335 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780399585623
0399585621
Author Notes: C. S. Harris is the pen name for Candice Proctor, who received a B. A. in classics and an M. A. and Ph.D in European history. She taught history at the University of Idaho and Midwestern State University in Texas. She also worked as an archaeologist on a variety of sites including a Hudson's Bay Company Fort in San Juan Island, a Cherokee village in Tennessee, a prehistoric kill site in Victoria, Australia, and a Roman cemetery and medieval manor house in Winchester, England. She spent many years as a partner in an international business consulting firm.

She writes novels under the names Candice Proctor, C. S. Harris, and C. S. Graham. She writes the Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Ser. under the name C. S. Harris. She is also the author of a nonfiction historical study of women in the French Revolution.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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