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Title Statement | What the devil knows / C.S. Harris. |
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Series | Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series |
Author | Harris, C. S |
Publication | ©2021New York: Berkley,[2021] |
Extent of Item | 321 pages |
ISBN | 9780593102664 0593102665 |
Other Number | 3949096 |
Summary | It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over; Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together, and London finds itself in the grip of a series of terrifying murders eerily similar to the shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before. In 1811, two entire families were brutally murdered in their homes. A suspect--a young Irish seaman named John Williams--was arrested. But before he could be brought to trial, Williams hanged himself in his cell. The murders ceased, and London slowly began to breathe easier. But when the lead investigator, Sir Edwin Pym, is killed in the same brutal way, suddenly everyone is talking about the heinous crimes again, and the city is paralyzed with terror. Was the wrong man arrested for the murders? Has a vicious serial killer decided it's time to kill again? Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for assistance. Pym's colleagues are convinced his manner of death is a coincidence, but Sebastian has his doubts. The more he looks into the three-year-old murders, the more certain he becomes that the hapless John Williams was not the real killer. Which begs the question--who was? |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Judicial error--Fiction |
Serial murder investigation--Fiction--England--London | |
Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character)--Fiction | |
By Location | Great Britain--Fiction--History--George III, 1760-1820 |
London (England)--Fiction--History--19th century | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Mystery fiction |