![]() ![]() Captain Lacey has his own demons, being frequently plunged into melancholia and overcome with rage when he encounters injustice. Unlike the fairy tale world of a Regency romance, this book deals with the harsh realities facing Napoleonic war veterans and the lurid circumstances of sex trafficking in Regency London. This book reminded me a good deal of Anne Perry’s Victorian murder mysteries, albeit set at an earlier period in history. With the aid of his well-to-do society friend Lord Grenville, Lacey begins an investigation that unearths murder, conspiracy, and a sinister man with the ability to influence the highest eschelons of society. When he comes to the rescue of an old gentleman beating on the door of a fancy townhouse, he learns that the man’s daughter was mysteriously abducted two months prior. Injured and dismissed from his regiment with half pay, Captain Gabriel Lacey is trying to eke out a tolerable life in London. ![]()
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