This is the 12th (!) Sebastian St. Cyr mystery, which means I have come to the end of the published books.  I have really enjoyed the entire series, and Ms Harris has done an excellent job of keeping the storylines interesting.  Coming to the end of this is probably not a bad thing with the warmer weather and my lack of free time to read as much as before.  It also coincides with my 52nd book and reaching Cannonball! Over the course of three years […]

Book 11 in the series moves Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, out of London to the seemingly sleepy Shropshire village to visit the grandmother of Jamie Knox (a man who was most likely a half-brother, and killed in the last book because of his resemblance to Devlin) and to hopefully uncover more clues to his parentage.  Alas, even in such peaceful surroundings the grim reaper raises its ugly head.  A young woman is discovered dead on the bank of the river, and all indications point […]

Book 10 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series begins with a grisly discovery of a decapitated man at Bloody Bridge, his head mounted on a spike.  The man was Stanley Preston, a wealthy man who owned a plantation in the West Indies.  He was also a man who collected mummified heads (what fun), and a lead coffin strap linked to King Charles 1648 was found near his body, indicating he may have been lured to his death with the promise of the head.  As […]

Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman entangles Sebastian in the deadly riddle of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared during the darkest days of the French Revolution. In one of the poorest areas in London, two bodies are discovered – a woman, near death and a man, dead with his heart viciously removed.  Paul Gibson, a surgeon/anatomist, has stumbled across this gruesome scene as he was heading home.  […]