Lady Darby, Kiera, and her husband Sebastian Gage are back in London.
Kiera fled London in the aftermath of the scandal concerning her
first husband, Sir Anthony and the body snatchers. Now, she is
happily pregnant and beginning to believe her nightmare is over when
it seems the body snatchers are back at work and an ex-colleague of
her late husband threatens to publish his anatomy journals and
implicate her.
When a dissolute
young lord is found murdered, the family asks Sebastian and Kiera to investigate. The murder has been staged to make it appear
the work of the body snatchers, but Kiera and Gage are not convinced.
While this is a
mystery, the author manages to create a realistic historical picture of
the era. The body snatchers killing people on the streets and selling
their bodies for medical research was a serious problem and
rightfully had the citizens of London terrified.
I enjoy the Lady
Darby novels because in addition to the mystery, the author paints a
delightful picture of Kiera and Sebastian as loving newly weds and
their support each other in the trials of a judgmental ton and the
disapproval of Sebastian's father.
If you enjoy
historical mysteries with a background of romance, this is a good
one.
I received this book
from Net Galley for this review.
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