03428cam a2200529 i 4500 350171504 TxAuBib 20141023120000.0 130910s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013033807 9780451417558 $24.95 0451417550 $24.95 (OCoLC)857897942 DLC eng rda DLC IG# OCLCO YDXCP BTCTA GK8 ABG VP@ CDX OCLCF OCLCO CHVBK ALH TxAuBib rda Harris, C. S. Why kings confess : a Sebastian St. Cyr mystery / C.S. Harris. New York, New York : Obsidian, [2014] 340 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sebastian St. Cyr mystery, A "An Obsidian mystery.". "The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian's past puts him to the ultimate test. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr. Damion Pelletan in one of London's worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of murder and revenge. Although the woman, Alexi Sauvage, has no memory of the attack, Sebastian knows her all too well from an incident in his past-an act of wartime brutality and betrayal that nearly destroyed him. As the search for the killer leads Sebastian into a treacherous web of duplicity, he discovers that Pelletan was part of a secret delegation sent by Napoleon to investigate the possibility of peace with Britain. Despite his powerful father-in-law's warnings, Sebastian plunges deep into the mystery of the "Lost Dauphin," the boy prince who disappeared in the darkest days of the French Revolution, and soon finds himself at lethal odds with the Dauphin's sister-the imperious, ruthless daughter of Marie Antoinette-who is determined to retake the French crown at any cost. With the murderer striking ever closer, Sebastian must battle new fears about Hero's health and that of their soon-to-be born child. When he realizes the key to their survival may lie in the hands of an old enemy, he must finally face the truth about his own guilt in a past he has found too terrible to consider.... "-- Provided by publisher. 20141023. 1760-1820. Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character) Fiction. Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character.) Private investigators England London Fiction. Private investigators. Nobility England Fiction. Nobility. Physicians Crimes against Fiction. Physicians Crimes against. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. Kriminalroman. Great Britain History George III, 1760-1820 Fiction. Great Britain. France History 1789-1815 Fiction. France. England. England. London. Detective and mystery fiction. Regency fiction. Fiction. A Sebastian St. Cyr mystery.