Sebastian Gage returns home to battle the ghosts of his past and prevent them from destroying his future with Kiera in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.
July 1831. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Though he has shared little with his wife, Lady Kiera Darby, about his past, she knows that he planned never to return to the place of so many unhappy childhood memories. But when an urgent letter from his grandfather reaches them in Dublin, Ireland, and begs Gage to visit, Kiera convinces him to go.
All is not well at Langstone Manor. Gage's grandfather, the Viscount Tavistock, is gravely ill, and Gage's cousin Alfred has suddenly vanished. He wandered out into the moors and never returned. The Viscount is convinced someone or something other than the natural hazards of the moors is to blame for Alfred's disappearance. And when Alfred's brother Rory goes missing, Kiera and Gage must concede he may be right. Now, they must face the ghosts of Gage's past, discover the truth behind the local superstitions, and see beyond the tricks being played by their very own eyes to expose what has happened to Gage's family before the moors claim yet another victim...
From Goodreads:
November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds of Edinburgh criminals, Burke and Hare—killing people from the streets and selling their bodies to medical schools. Then Kiera's past—a past she thought she'd finally made peace with—rises up to haunt her.
All of London is horrified by the evidence that "burkers" are, indeed, at work in their city. The terrified populace hovers on a knife's edge, ready to take their enmity out on any likely suspect. And when Kiera receives a letter of blackmail, threatening to divulge details about her late anatomist husband's involvement with the body snatchers and wrongfully implicate her, she begins to apprehend just how precarious her situation is. Not only for herself, but also her new husband and investigative partner, Sebastian Gage, and their unborn child.
Meanwhile, the young scion of a noble family has been found murdered a block from his home, and the man's family wants Kiera and Gage to investigate. Is it a failed attempt by the London burkers, having left the body behind, or the crime of someone much closer to home? Someone who stalks the privileged, using the uproar over the burkers to cover his own dark deeds?
My Review:
Oh, man, I really enjoyed reading these books! This series has just been getting better and better, and I really enjoyed both of these mysteries! They're both extremely personal, with Shadows dealing with Gage's past, and Demise with Kiera's. So that definitely caused conflict that they had to deal with in their marriage!
In Shadows, we learn about Gage's childhood, where his mom was pretty much banished, and he was only let in to be educated. Yeah, he wasn't treated the most fairly, and that brought up questions about his mom for Kiera, that his mom would stay in that situation where he was being treated like that.
Then in Demise, well, we have the burkers, which calls back to Kiera's past as her husband was why burkers had demand for their services. We learned just how bad it could be, and a clear view of how her first husband was like, instead of just hints. Yeah, he was awful!
Of course, in both books there's excellent mysteries. From a missing cousin to the sons of the elite who are made to be seemed to be burked, yeah, they were such fascinating mysteries! I really enjoyed watching the investigations!
Loved reading this series, I've caught up with what's currently been published, and I can't wait for more!
Author: Anna Lee Huber
Series: Lady Darby Mystery #6, 7
Read: September 8th, 10th, 2019
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and it's a Historical Fiction 2019 Books and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2019 Books!
Publisher: Berkley
Published: March 6th 2018, April 2nd 2019
A Brush With Shadows:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
An Artless Demise:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
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