Binding: Hardcover
Description: July 1815: The Prince Regent's grandiose plans to celebrate Napoleon's recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady Mc Innis and her daughter Emma are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park their bodies posed in a chilling imitation of the stone effigies once found atop medieval tombs. Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy immediately turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr Viscount Devlin for help with the investigation. For as Devlin discovers Lovejoy's own wife and daughter were also murdered in Richmond Park their bodies posed in the same bizarre postures. A traumatised ex - soldier was hanged for their killings. So is London now confronting a malicious copyist? Or did Lovejoy help send an innocent man to the gallows? Aided by his wife Hero who knew Lady Mc Innis from her work with poor orphans Devlin finds himself exploring a host of unsavoury characters from a vicious chimneysweep to a smiling but decidedly lethal baby farmer. Also coming under increasing scrutiny is Sir Ivo Mc Innis himself along with a wounded Waterloo veteran - who may or may not have been Laura Mc Innis's lover - and a charismatic young violinist who moonlights as a fencing master and may have formed a dangerous relationship with Emma. But when Sebastian's investigation turns toward man about town Basil Rhodes he quickly draws the fury of the Palace for Rhodes is well known as the Regent's favourite illegitimate son. Then Lady Mc Innis's young niece and nephew are targeted by the killer and two more women are discovered murdered and arranged in similar postures. With his own life increasingly in danger Sebastian finds himself drawn inexorably toward a conclusion far darker and more horrific than anything he could have imagined.
Title: What Cannot Be Said
Author(s): Harris C. S.
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Barcode: 9780593639184
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 4/16/2024
Category: Crime & Mystery