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A review by taisie22
Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris
5.0
When his wife Hero finds the body of a woman frozen on a London street, Sebastian St Cyr becomes involved in the case. Jane Ambrose was the piano teacher to Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Prince Regent. The Palace wants to cover the crime up, but Sebastian and Hero investigate anyway and find a web involving smuggled gold, the Rothschilds, a tie to the proposed marriage of Prince William of Orange to Charlotte, and politics between the Whigs and the Tories.
I always wait eagerly for the books in this series to appear on my reader, having preordered them months in advance. I am never disappointed. The writing is excellent, the history is detailed and accurate, and the mystery most always confounds me. I found Why Kill the Innocent to be among the best of the series. There are a lot of suspects, all with varying (and interesting) reasons for being the murderer.
I always like the subplots that involve Hero. She's usually writing an article about social conditions in England of the time. Here she focuses on men pressed into military service and the families left to support themselves on their own. "If no one criticizes or even questions the wrongs of our society, it will never change.”
We also got some more information on the overarching mystery of who Sebastian's real father is.
And now I wait another year for the next book in this excellent series. Sigh.
I always wait eagerly for the books in this series to appear on my reader, having preordered them months in advance. I am never disappointed. The writing is excellent, the history is detailed and accurate, and the mystery most always confounds me. I found Why Kill the Innocent to be among the best of the series. There are a lot of suspects, all with varying (and interesting) reasons for being the murderer.
I always like the subplots that involve Hero. She's usually writing an article about social conditions in England of the time. Here she focuses on men pressed into military service and the families left to support themselves on their own. "If no one criticizes or even questions the wrongs of our society, it will never change.”
We also got some more information on the overarching mystery of who Sebastian's real father is.
And now I wait another year for the next book in this excellent series. Sigh.