July 1815 The Prince Regents grandiose plans to celebrate Napoleons recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in a chilling imitation of the stone effigies once found atop medieval tombs. Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy immediately turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help with the investigation. For as Devlin discovers, Lovejoys own wife and daughter were also murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in the same bizarre postures. A traumatised exsoldier was hanged for their killings. So is London now confronting a malicious copyist? Or did Lovejoy help send an innocent man to the gallows? Aided by his wife, Hero, who knew Lady McInnis from her work with poor orphans, Devlin finds himself exploring a host of unsavoury characters from a vicious chimneysweep to a smiling but decidedly lethal baby farmer. Also coming under increasing scrutiny is Sir Ivo McInnis himself, along with a wounded Waterloo veteranwho may or may not have been Laura McInniss loverand a charismatic young violinist who moonlights as a fencing master and may have formed a dangerous relationship with Emma. But when Sebastians investigation turns toward man about town Basil Rhodes, he quickly draws the fury of the Palace, for Rhodes is well known as the Regents favourite illegitimate son. Then Lady McInniss young niece and nephew are targeted by the killer,...

Binding: Paperback;386 pages; Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC; Classification: FF; Weight: 390 g; Dimensions: 140 x 204 x 25

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