C.S. Harris' What Angels Fear
In search of a new mystery series to get into, I was excited when someone on Twitter mentioned this one--a Regency-era murder mystery! Actually, to be fair, this is immediately pre-Regency, as the plotting to get the Prince Regent installed comes up a couple of times. But the is primarily about one Sebastian St Cyr, a Viscount who is implicated in the extremely violent and gross murder of an actress, and must go on the run and clear his name! Luckily he's just back from a stint in military intelligence during the Napoleonic Wars and has the skills necessary for such an endeavor. Plus he gets a street urchin sidekick pretty quickly, as those are de rigeur in these types of stories. There wasn't quite as much about social mores as I might have liked (the women here are actresses and social mores don't really apply, and there's a lot about men and their politics) but this was a strong start to a series I'll definitely be reading. B+.
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