![]() ![]() 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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