Sebastian's favorite niece married an arrogant man who had a title and could raise her status in life. He was very wicked and abusive and she soon left him and moved in with his father. She was pregnant which was what his father wanted and now he'd have money to play with again. He was a philanderer with nasty habits but someone turned on him. He'd been savagely killed in his own bedroom. Did his wife do it? Did one of the women fight back? Was a man upset about what he did to his woman?
Berkley sent me a copy of this book to read for review (thank you). It will be published today.
Sebastian is asked to work on the case and he wants to help his niece, so he agrees. He doesn't want them to hang the death on her. Although she's not telling him telling him the whole truth so he's not sure if she's guilty or not. The biggest problem he has is that so many people hated him it could have been most anybody.
As he digs through the past and the present, he talks to those who had recently talked to the dead man. There's a Russian princess here and she has a Colonel who could easily have killed him. His friend's offer no new information. And then his friends start dying. Even his maid is killed. Sebastian doubles his efforts to stop the killings and it gets more and more dangerous for him.
Those with money and power could get by with doing anything. It's hard to tie things to them And when he discovers the killer, the killer tries to kill him...
The ending is a real surprise and you aren't sure that Sebastian is going win this one...
I found it a very good read although the subject matter is bit repulsive. It's a good enough mystery to let that go.
2 comments:
Not sure I'd be right for this one. Cheers
Thanks for sharing your thoughts:)
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