Book 14 in the Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Series set in Regency England.
Adapted from Google Books:
When the handsome but degenerate Lord Ashworth is found murdered in his bed, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. In the previous series entry, Why Kill the Innocent (2018), Sebastian suspected Ashworth of participating in the kidnapping and murder of vulnerable street children, but was never able to find solid evidence proving his complicity. To make matters worse, Sebastian was unable to prevent his troubled, headstrong young niece Stephanie from entering into a disastrous marriage with the vicious nobleman.
Ashworth only married Stephanie to satisfy his father, the Marquis, who had issued an ultimatum: marry and beget an heir or be cut off without a penny. Now that Stephanie has given birth to twin sons, the Marquis is satisfied. But Sebastian realizes the marriage is a sham. Stephanie has fled her abusive husband and is living with her children at her father-in-law’s Park Street mansion. Ashworth has continued his sadistic sexual liaisons at his own town house in Curzon Street, culminating in his murder. Sebastian discovers a plethora of suspects among the many people Ashworth has victimized and ruined. But mounting evidence --- ranging from a small bloody handprint to a woman’s silk stocking left at the scene --- suggests Ashworth’s killer was a woman. Sebastian works to uncover the tangled secrets of Ashworth's last days and find his killer, not just for justice sake, but to prove that Stephanie is not the killer.
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