Who Slays the Wicked

Summary

The death of a handsome but dissolute nobleman strikes close to home for Sebastian St. Cyr in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent. …

London, 1814. When sadistic young Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered in his silk-hung, blood-soaked bed, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in to help catch the killer. Just seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding in the kidnapping and murder of a string of vulnerable street children. But Sebastian was never able to prove Ashworth’s complicity. Nor was he able to prevent his troubled, headstrong young niece, Stephanie, from entering into a disastrous marriage with the dangerous nobleman.

With mounting evidence—from a small bloody handprint to a silk stocking— suggesting that Ashworth’s killer was a woman, Sebastian must delve deep into the murdered man’s debauched life and unravel the treacherous schemes of a deadly Russian duchess to keep Stephanie from being convicted of murder.

And as the allied armies march on Paris and Napoléon’s end draws near, Sebastian races to confront a chilling, ruthless killer who will stop at nothing and spare no one.