England, the summer of 1815, Napoleon has been captured and is on a ship in Plymouth Sound. Hopefully peace will reign.
Unfortunately
for Henry Morton, a Bow Street Runner, that is not to be the case, for
the body of a young woman has been found. The coroner determines it is
murder. With the help of his actress friend, Arabella Malibrant, Morton
is able to determine that she is French. She is also the mistress of a
French count. The count is Louis XVIII's ambassador to England. A few
days later the count is also brutally slain. Are the deaths the work
of French royalists or Bonapartists?
Spies are spying upon
spies and reporting back to their masters in France. One group wants to
ensure that a king remains on the throne of France while the other
wants a Corsican to have a safe retirement in the country that was once her enemy, for English law could not prosecute Napoleon once he was on English soil. England is
caught in the middle. Treachery, murder and mayhem ensue.
This is the first book of T. F. Banks I have read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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