But the discovery of Rachel’s diary and a hidden pregnancy quicken the search for her killer.Ī starchy but well-appointed debut most notable for its historic detail.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Meanwhile, Sebastian’s distraught father tries to slow Lovejoy’s manhunt by confessing to the murder himself, to little avail. These include a fellow thespian, a wealthy Frenchman and Sebastian’s brother-in-law. The pair embark on dangerous probes that uncover a cache of secrets about Rachel as well as an array of lovers and admirers.

Breaking into the room of acclaimed actress Kat Boleyn, who’s both his great lost love and the late Rachel’s closest confidante, Sebastian enlists her help in ferreting out the truth. While transporting Sebastian to lockup, sniveling constable Edward Maitland accidentally stabs another officer and quickly blames it on Sebastian, multiplying the young nobleman’s alleged offenses and triggering his escape. Though addicted to danger and alcohol, the honorable Sebastian, haunted by war memories, is no predator. Cyr, the Viscount Devlin, a veteran of the Napoleon Wars with a notorious reputation. Magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy arrests handsome Sebastian St. Matthew’s of the Fields church, where she is brutally raped and murdered by an anonymous figure. Naïve young actress Rachel York is lured to a rendezvous at St. In 19th-century England, a dashing nobleman teams up with a jaded actress to clear his name of a murder charge.

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