Lady Darby #7
Berkley Prime Crime
April 2019
On Sale: April 2, 2019
384 pages ISBN: 045149136X EAN: 9780451491367 Kindle: B07FC7Y6GT Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband,
Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when
her past comes back to haunt her in the latest exciting
installment in this national bestselling series.
November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two
years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is
anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she
expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion
of imitating the notorious misdeeds of Edinburgh criminals,
Burke and Hare--killing people from the streets and selling
their bodies to medical schools. Then Kiera's past--a past
she thought she'd finally made peace with--rises up to haunt
her.
All of London is horrified by the evidence that "burkers"
are, indeed, at work in their city. The terrified populace
hovers on a knife's edge, ready to take their enmity out on
any likely suspect. And when Kiera receives a letter of
blackmail, threatening to divulge details about her late
anatomist husband's involvement with the body snatchers and
wrongfully implicate her, she begins to apprehend just how
precarious her situation is. Not only for herself, but also
her new husband and investigative partner, Sebastian Gage,
and their unborn child.
Meanwhile, the young scion of a noble family has been found
murdered a block from his home, and the man's family wants
Kiera and Gage to investigate. Is it a failed attempt by the
London burkers, having left the body behind, or the crime of
someone much closer to home? Someone who stalks the
privileged, using the uproar over the burkers to cover his
own dark deeds?
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