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  • ISBN13: 9780451219718
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  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a stunning young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness together point to one man-Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 3 of 5  Engrossing, over the top mystery/romance   2010-02-22
By Bookaholic Abroad
I'm on a historical mystery kick and thought this was one. Wrong. It's a romance novel fashioned around a mystery. That being said, it's a wonderfully engrossing book, well written, and full of interesting details about the time. The more comic book-esque aspects bothered me at first but as I read more of the book I happily suspended my disbelief and simply enjoyed the book. I will be buying the other books in the series when I want a light and engrossing book to read (on the plane, on the train, on the beach)
Customer rating is 4 of 5  Very enjoyable historical mystery   2010-02-17
By Justwannaread! (Indianapolis, IN USA)
I don't read books to pick apart the anachronisms or grammar, unless it is frequent and glaring. I read for simple pleasure and I found this novel to meet that criteria. This was the first time I read this author and the series was recommended to me by some friends on another author's bulletin board. I'm happy to have had the recommendation and will definitely continue reading the St. Cyr. series. The action is good, the plot well written and most of the characters are intriguing. I especially liked Sebastian and his little side kick, Tom. I was a little surprised there was so much graphic detail about the murder scene (there are a few ICK moments). There is a limited amount of romance in this book, but I realize that romance is not the focal point of a mystery novel. Well worth the read!
Customer rating is 1 of 5  Kindle Users Beware   2010-01-20
By The Bear (Garden Grove, CA USA)
Regarding the use of this book on Kindle - it USED to be speech enabled, allowing a Kindle user to play the book in your car so you could hear it while you drove (or any other place, if you wanted to give your eyes a rest). Now, all of a sudden, it's no longer speech enabled (text-to-speech). What gives? Did the publishers suddenly change their minds? Is the support for text-to-speech disappearing from our Kindles? I bought Kindle BECAUSE it had the text-to-speech ability, and now that seems to be getting more and more useless for the books I want to buy. Horrible.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Most promising new-to-me historical mystery series.   2010-01-18
By S. Schwartz (alberta canada)
This is the first book in the Sebastian St. Cyr series, and it is a winner. The action is non-stoppable, and it kept me wanting to read more. The book is set in London in the winter of 1811. The tension begins early in the book with the discovery of a badly mutilated body of a woman in a lady chapel of a church, and it kept up from there, not letting the reader go. We are also introduced to Sebastian St. Cyr who is a larger-than-life hero with many skills in spying, self-defence and in investigation all of which he handles with extreme courage. The book touches on political aspects of this time as well. 1811 is when the mad King George is removed from his kingship and the throne is given to the Prince Regent, his son. There is an ongoing war with France that allows the author to bring in a French spy connection. This is a complex book with many plots and sub-plots and it is a sign of the author's skill that all of them come together at the end. I cannot wait to read the next book in this compelling series.
Customer rating is 2 of 5  Comic book-esque   2009-12-31
By Harvey A. Lewis (Greenwood, AR United States)
I was disappointed. I only read 50 pages or so before pitching the book, but in that short span it was revealed that not only was St Cyr the greatest Romeo that London had ever seen, and had hearing far exceeding normal humans, but he could control the flight of a pistol ball with exact precision. For everybody else, a round projectile wanders unpredictably, thats why we use rifled barrels and pointed projectiles now - but St Cyr is not subject to the laws of physics.
As to personality, he was the type to ignore, twice, his faithful manservant who was trying to tell him something important. I have seen numerous comics with better plot development and more believable characters.


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