Why Kill the Innocent
  • Published: 15 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9780399585647
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00

Why Kill the Innocent

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In this paperback reprint, a brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court in this gripping historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie.

In this paperback reprint, a brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court in this gripping historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie.

London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift. Jane Ambrose's ties to Princess Charlotte, the only child of the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, panic the palace, which moves quickly to shut down any investigation into the death of the talented pianist. But Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife, Hero, refuse to allow Jane's murderer to escape justice.

Untangling the secrets of Jane's world leads Sebastian into a maze of dangerous treachery where each player has his or her own unsavory agenda and no one can be trusted. As the Thames freezes over and the people of London pour onto the ice for a Frost Fair, Sebastian and Hero find their investigation circling back to the palace and building to a chilling crescendo of deceit and death . . .
  • Published: 15 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9780399585647
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Why Kill the Innocent

Praise for Why Kill the Innocent

"The best St. Cyr yet."--Booklist

"The mystery highlights the circumscribed course of women's lives of the Regency era while exposing the rot that underlies the period's glitter...Highly recommended for lovers of historical thrillers."--Library Journal (starred review)

Praise for C. S. Harris and the Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries
"Sebastian St. Cyr is everything you could want in a Regency-era nobleman-turned-death investigator: uncannily clever, unwaveringly reserved, and irresistibly sexy. The entire series is simply elegant."--Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Harris is a master of the genre."--The Historical Novels Review

"This riveting historical tale of tragedy and triumph, with its sly nods to Jane Austen and her characters, will enthrall you."--Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling author

"Harris crafts her story with the threat of danger, hints of humor...and a conclusion that will make your pulse race. Impressive."--The New Orleans Times-Picayune

"As always with C.S. Harris's works, this is one that offers the perfect blend of history and suspense."--Suspense Magazine

"Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Moody and atmospheric, exposing the dark underside of Regency London."--Deanna Raybourn, New York Times bestselling author

"With such well-developed characters, intriguing plotlines, graceful prose, and keen sense of time and place based on solid research, this is historical mystery at its best."--Booklist (starred review)