What Remains of Heaven

Lord Jarvis is with the Prince Regent when news is brought to him that the Bishop of London is dead.  It isn’t long after that that the Archbishop of Canterbury shows up at the home of Viscount Devlin in the company of his aunt.  The Archbishop wants him to investigate the murder of the bishop.

In the ancient crypt where the bishop was murdered there is also a body that had lain there for thirty or forty years with a knife lodged in its back.  Magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy wonders if there might be a connection between the two killings.

Devlin learns from the bishop’s chaplain that he was an abolitionist, which could have meant that he had enemies.  He wants to look into the bishop’s recent appointments, and is surprised when he finds out that Miss Hero Jarvis has just asked about them, too.

Speaking to Hero, she directs him to a man who she claims threatened the bishop.  He in turn directs Devlin to William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin.  Franklin doesn’t dispute that he had had an argument with the bishop, but his argument had momentarily followed another the bishop had had with a local butcher.

Devlin turns to Kat Boleyn to see if she can get information about the possibility that the bishop was being blackmailed.  He also learns from Tom, his tiger that the butcher’s son is home from the war and threatening to kill a certain lord, who was his officer.

Then the priest who discovered the body before the bishop was murdered identifies the body to Devlin.  With this new knowledge, he turns to his aunt for more information on the person who had been dead for so long.

Devlin’s adventures are far from done.  Author C. S. Harris has intrigue and danger ahead for him and his tiger, Tom.  Will he come out of the scrapes whole or will he be a new man?  Harris has provided the reader with another rollicking historical thriller.