Tauchen Sie ein in die opulente, aber auch gefährliche Welt des Regency-Englands, wo aristokratische Geheimnisse auf spannende Rätsel stoßen. Begleiten Sie einen scharfsinnigen Adligen, der die Komplexität der High Society durchdringt, um verwirrende Verbrechen aufzuklären. Jede Folge bietet eine Mischung aus historischer Intrige, fesselnden Charakteren und spannungsgeladenen Handlungssträngen. Entdecken Sie eine fesselnde Reise durch eine detailreich dargestellte Vergangenheit voller Gefahr und Romantik.
Detektivní příběh je zasazen do Londýna na počátku 19. století. Aristokrat Sebastian St. Cyr trpí zvláštní chorobou způsobenou genetickou mutací: má mimořádně citlivý zrak i sluch. Nešťastnou shodou náhod je Sebastian obviněn z vraždy ženy, podaří se mu však při zatýkání utéct a pustí se do pátrání po vrahovi na vlastní pěst...
Královský dvůr je otřesen. Během velkolepých slavností byla překrásná markýza Anglessey nalezena mrtvá v komnatách samotného prince! Záhadou je, že na krku měla dávno ztracený náhrdelník, který podle legendy patřil slavné druidské kněžce. Co mohlo stát v dopise, který markýza náhodou objevila při tajné schůzce se svým milencem?
Život vikomta Sebastiana opět naplňují mnohá vzrušující tajemství. Při novém vyšetřování se nechá strhnout magickou atmosférou starého Londýna a nechybí mnoho, aby uvízl v síti zlých intrik. I luxusní salony vznešených aristokratů jsou totiž plné neřádu stejně jako špinavé londýnské doky! Nejlákavější záhadou zůstává srdce Sebastianovy lásky Kate, které skrývá netušené překvapení.
Hero Jarvis seeks Sebastian St. Cyr's assistance to investigate the murders of eight prostitutes. Their pursuit leads them from London's East End to Mayfair, as they race to uncover a killer's plot that endangers the nation.
The “rich period detail [and] riveting action”* C. S. Harris delivers in her Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series reaches new heights as the aristocratic sleuth navigates dangerous political waters to bring a murderer to justice… Regency London: July 1812. How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? That’s the challenge confronting C.S. Harris’s aristocratic soldier-turned-sleuth Sebastian St. Cyr when his friend, surgeon and “anatomist” Paul Gibson, illegally buys the cadaver of a young man from London’s infamous body snatchers. A rising star at the Foreign Office, Mr. Alexander Ross was reported to have died of a weak heart. But when Gibson discovers a stiletto wound at the base of Ross’s skull, he can turn only to Sebastian for help in catching the killer. Described by all who knew him as an amiable young man, Ross at first seems an unlikely candidate for murder. But as Sebastian’s search takes him from the Queen’s drawing rooms in St. James’s Palace to the embassies of Russia, the United States, and the Turkish Empire, he plunges into a dangerous shadow land of diplomatic maneuvering and international intrigue, where truth is an elusive commodity and nothing is as it seems. *The New Orleans Times-Picayune
Inspired by the poem “The Lady of Shalott,” the seventh book in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series features the aristocratic investigator uncovering a mystery about the myth of King Arthur and probing the murder of Gabrielle Tennyson. 40,000 first printing.
The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the husband of Sebastian's former lover Kat Boleyn is accused of the murder. Central to the case is a magnificent blue diamond, the Hope diamond, believed to have once formed part of the French crown jewels.
Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman entangles Sebastian in the deadly riddle of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared during the darkest days of the French Revolution. Thrust into dangerous conflict with the Dauphin’s sister—the imperious, ruthless daughter of Marie Antoinette—Sebastian finds his self-control shattered when he recognizes the injured woman as Alexi Sauvage, a figure from his own past associated with an act of wartime brutality and betrayal that nearly destroyed him. With the murderer striking ever closer, Sebastian fears for the lives of his pregnant wife, Hero, and their soon-to-be-born child. And when he realizes the key to their survival may lie in the hands of an old enemy, he must finally face the truth about his own guilt in an incident he has found too terrible to consider....
London, 1813. The decapitation of a wealthy plantation owner draws Sebastian St. Cyr into a macabre and perilous investigation filled with connections to seventeenth-century monarchs, the Home Secretary and a brilliantly observant spinster named Jane Austen. But as one murder follows another, it is the connection between the victims and a ruthless former army officer, Lord Oliphant, that raises the stakes. Once, Oliphant nearly destroyed Sebastian in a horrific act of betrayal. Now he poses a threat to Sebastian and everyone he holds dear.
Set in a seemingly tranquil English village, the story follows Sebastian St. Cyr as he becomes embroiled in a complex murder investigation. The narrative blends historical intrigue with mystery, highlighting the contrasts between the village's serene facade and the dark secrets lurking beneath. With a national bestselling author at the helm, readers can expect a captivating tale filled with suspense and unexpected twists.
“The entire series is simply elegant.”—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author In this historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Who Slays the Wicked, the abduction and murder of a young boy takes Sebastian St. Cyr from the gritty streets of London to the glittering pleasure haunts of the aristocracy... London, 1813. One of the city's many homeless children, Benji Thatcher was abducted and murdered—and his younger sister is still missing. Few in authority care about a street urchin's fate, but Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, refuses to let this killer go unpunished. Uncovering a disturbing pattern of missing children, Sebastian is drawn into a shadowy, sadistic world. As he follows a grim trail that leads from the writings of the debauched Marquis de Sade to the city's most notorious brothels, he comes to a horrifying realization: Someone from society's upper echelon is preying upon the city's most vulnerable. And though dark, powerful forces are moving against him, Sebastian will risk his reputation and his life to keep more innocents from harm...
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 . . .
The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent.... When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. Just seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding one of his longtime friends and companions in the kidnapping and murder of a string of vulnerable street children. But Sebastian was never able to prove Ashworth's complicity. Nor was he able to prevent his troubled, headstrong young niece Stephanie from entering into a disastrous marriage with the dangerous nobleman. Stephanie has survived the difficult birth of twin sons. But Sebastian soon discovers that her marriage has quickly degenerated into a sham. Ashworth abandoned his pregnant bride at his father's Park Street mansion and has continued living an essentially bachelor existence. And mounting evidence--ranging from a small bloody handprint to a woman's silk stocking--suggests that Ashworth's killer was a woman. Sebastian is tasked with unraveling the shocking nest of secrets surrounding Ashworth's life to keep Stephanie from being punished for his death.
"Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman accused of murder in this enthralling new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent.... It's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regent's invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoléon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British nobleman long thought dead. Eighteen years before, Nicholas Hayes, the third son of the late Earl of Seaford, was accused of killing a beautiful young French émigré and transported to Botany Bay for life. Even before his conviction, Hayes had been disowned by his father. Few in London were surprised when they heard the ne'er-do-well had died in New South Wales in 1799. But those reports were obviously wrong. Recently Hayes returned to London with a mysterious young boy in tow--a child who vanishes shortly after Nicholas's body is discovered. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is drawn into the investigation by his valet, Jules Calhoun. With Calhoun's help, Sebastian begins to piece together the shattered life of the late Earl's ill-fated youngest son. Why did Nicholas risk his life and freedom by returning to England? And why did he bring the now-missing young boy with him? Several nervous Londoners had reason to fear that Nicholas Hayes had returned to kill them. One of them might have decided to kill him first"--