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I don't know how you wait so long!!!! Such a good series and I will be forever grateful to the person who recommended it:)
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I am going to order this one from the library asap. I've fallen behind in my reading commitments (I just proofread an author's series that is being republished, so I WAS reading).I'll try to follow this series, and maybe try to stay with another of the monthly choices. Really swamped with lots of family things, too.
The last one until April! Her publication date has been in March for years. Not sure why it's been moved to April.
Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife, Hero, have come to this deceptively peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend. But when the body of a young widow is found on the banks of the river Teme, the villages inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help.
Sebastian soon realizes that Emma Chance was hiding her true identity, and she was not the first beautiful young woman in the village to be murdered. Also troubling are the machinations of Lucien Bonaparte, the estranged brother of the megalomaniac French Emperor Napoleon...
Home to the eerie ruins of an ancient monastery, Ayleswick reveals itself to be a dark and dangerous place with a violent past that may be connected to Sebastian s own unsettling origins. And as he faces his most diabolical opponent ever, he is forced to consider what malevolence he is willing to embrace in order to destroy a killer.
60 Chapters
Character List
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Sebastian St. Cyr, Lord Devlin: Viscount Devlin. Tall, leanly built man, not yet 30-years old. He has dark hair and strange yellow eyes with the unnatural ability to see clearly at great distances or at night. Lord Hendon's only surviving son, they enjoy a very complicated and acrimonious relatiohship. St. Cyr's mother abandoned him at a young age which still affects him to this day. He was forced to forgo the love of his life, Kat Boleyn due to familial secrets. He's now married to Hero and father of their infant son, Simon.
Hero Jarvis St. Cyr, Lady Devlin: Viscountess Devlin. Daughter of Charles, Lord Jarvis and St. Cyr's enemy, She's tall, 25-years old with gray eyes and was considered a spinster until she married Sebastian. Independent minded, smart and not afraid of her father. She recently gave birth to their son, Simon.
Simon Alistair St. Cyr: Sebastian and Hero's 6-month old son.
Claire Bisette: Simon's nursemaid. She recently lost her 3-year old daughter.
Tom: Sebastian's 15-year old groom or tiger who is devoted to him because he rescued him from the streets after he saved Sebastian's life. Secures information for Sebastian due to living on the streets and his ability to go undetected.
Paul Gibson: Former army surgeon, an Irishman who shared the battlefields with Sebastian where he lost a leg. Unmarried, he works out of a small surgery at the base of Tower Hill and shares his knowledge of anatomy at St. Thomas and St. Bartholomew's teaching hospitals. He frequently assists St. Cyr, his friend, with his murder investigations and provides an invaluable source of knowledge. He's 32-years old slim, dark haired and of medium height and has an opium addiction. Alexi now lives with him.
Charles, Lord Jarvis: Brilliant, ruthless man and cousin to the King. Completely dedicated to the preservation of the House of Hanover, he was considered the power behind Prinny (Prince Regent) weak Regency due to King George slipping into madness. In prior mysteries, St. Cyr had broken into Jarvis' house, held him at gunpoint and thrown a knife at him. They were not on the best of terms and neither trusted the other. He's Hero's father.
Morey: Sebastian's majordomo.
Jules Calhoun: Sebastian's valet. Began his life in one of London's most notorious flash house, some of his unusual talents were of use to Sebastian who made solving murders his life's passion.
Jamie Knox: Former owner of the Black Devil tavern. He was a former sharpshooter for the army and looked like Sebastian and is suspected to have been his brother. He was also a reputed smuggler who had worked with Yates and was recently murdered. His grandmother, Heddie, lives in Shropshire.
Jenny Dalyrimple: Jamie's twin sister. She's married to Alex.
Heddie Kincaid: Knox's grandmother.
Eleanor Knox: Jamie and Jenny's mother who died soon after they were born.
Webster Nash: Constable and Shropshire village sexton and bell ringer.
Archibald (Archie) Rawlins: Squire of Ayleswick.
Emma Chance: Murder victim. Young widow who just recently moved to the village of Ayleswick.
Martin McBroom: Keeper of the Blue Boar inn.
Lucien Bonaparte: Napoléon's brother.
Alexandrine Bonaparte: Lucien's wife.
Charles Bonaparte: Lucien's 10-year old son who discovered Emma's body. He has a fascination for birds.
Peg Fletcher: Emma's abigail.
Reverend Benedict Underwood: Vicar of St. Thomas in Ayleswick.
Agnes Underwood: Benedict's wife.
Rachel Timms: Benedict's cousin.
Rose Blount: Benedict's cousin.
Reuben Dickie: Mentally slow-witted man.
Jeb Dickie: Reuben's brother, a carter.
Becka Dickie: Reuben and Jeb's mother.
Hiram Higginbottom: Doctor in Ayleswick.
Grace, Lady Seaton: Widow who lives at Northcott Abbey.
Leopold Seaton: Lady Seaton's husband, deceased.
Crispin Seaton: Lady Seaton's son.
Georgina Seaton: Lady Seaton's daughter.
Albert Felton Turnstall, Lord Heyworth: Third Earl of Heyworth.
Dowager Countess of Heyworth: Lord Heyworth's mother.
Emily Turnstall: Albert's sister, the Dowager's daughter.
Hannibal Pierce: Former soldier now working for Jarvis.
Samuel Atwater: Steward at Northcott Abbey.
Jude Lowe: Proprietor of the Ship, a tavern. He's Heddie's son.
Daray Flanagan: Village schoolmaster.
Alice Gibbs: Miller's wife.
Eugene Weston: Major who moved to Ayleswick over twenty years ago and married into the wealthy Irving family at Maplethorpe Hall.
Liv Irving Weston: Married to Eugene Weston. She's the Irving family heir and an accomplished gardner.
Silas Madden: Weston family gardener.
Magnus Fowler: Coroner from Ludlow.
George Irving: Liv's father who died in the fire at Maplethorpe Hall.
Mary Beth Hodge: Chamber maid at the Blue Boar.
Jane Owens: Former teacher at Miss Rowena LaMont's Academy for Young Ladies.
Rowena LaMont: Headmistress and owner of Rowena LaMont's Academy for Young Ladies.
Sybil Moss: One of two young women who committed suicide over 15 years ago.
Anne Moss: Sybil's mother.
Hannah Grant: One of two young women who committed suicide over 15 years ago.
Miles Grant: Blacksmith and Hannah's father. Married to Mary.
Mary Grant: Hannah's mother, married to Miles.
Will Hanson: Innkeeper of The Black Lion.
Sarah Hanson: Will's wife who was the governess to the Turnstall children.
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Spoiler Info
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Emma Chance was really Emma Chandler, parlor boarder at Miss Rowena LaMont’s Academy for Young Ladies in Tenbury. She was Emily Turnstall's daughter.
Weston was part of a smuggling ring that included Jude Lowe, Silas Madden and Daray Flanagan.
Lord Seaton impregnated Sybil, Hannah and Emily.
Sybil committed suicide, witnessed by Jenny.
Underwood was forcing his cousins to have sex with him in exchange for letting them stay in the cottage.
Jude murdered Hannah because she became pregnant by Seaton. He also killed Emma, Lord Seaton, Hannibal Pierce, George Irving, Reuben, Weston and Flanagan. They suspect he killed his father, too. (hide spoiler)]