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What Angels Fear by C. S. Harris
A brutal murder in Regency London pulls a haunted nobleman into a web of power, scandal, and shadowed alleyways. With razor-sharp wit and relentless pace, What Angels Fear invites you into ballrooms and backstreets where every whisper could be deadly.
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... an aristocratic investigation that mixes scandal, murder, and slow-burn chemistry in gaslit London?
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
If you loved watching Sebastian St. Cyr clear his name after Rachel York’s churchyard murder—ducking Bow Street and sparring with Lord Jarvis while relying on allies like Sir Henry Lovejoy and Paul Gibson—you’ll click with the way Lady Julia Grey and the enigmatic Nicholas Brisbane pry into a death that high society would rather hush up. Silent in the Grave blends drawing-room intrigue with back‑alley legwork and a simmering partnership, echoing Sebastian’s mix of privilege and peril.
... a murder inquiry entangled with state power and a ruthless political fixer?
Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
The way Sebastian’s hunt in What Angels Fear keeps colliding with Lord Jarvis’s machinations finds a powerful parallel in Dissolution. Here, lawyer Matthew Shardlake investigates a monastery killing under the shadow of Thomas Cromwell—another chilling string‑puller who makes witnesses disappear and truths inconvenient. If Jarvis’s behind‑the‑scenes pressure ratcheted your tension, Cromwell’s iron grip will, too.
... a fugitive’s fight to survive and clear his name while tracking a brutal killing through a city’s darkest corners?
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
Sebastian’s flight across Covent Garden and Seven Dials after being framed for Rachel York’s murder captures a gritty, desperate energy. The Devil in the Marshalsea plunges you into something just as visceral: Thomas Hawkins must solve a prison murder or die there. The claustrophobic danger, corrupt warders, and knife‑edge choices mirror the darkest beats of Sebastian’s run from Bow Street.
... richly textured historical detail and early forensic sleuthing that peels back a city from palaces to slums?
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
If the vivid Regency streets—actors’ lodgings, church crypts, and noble salons—made Sebastian’s search feel tangible, you’ll relish the immersive world of Mistress of the Art of Death. Adelia Aguilar, a medieval “doctor to the dead,” uses anatomical insight and sharp deduction much like Sebastian leans on Paul Gibson’s medical expertise. The result is a living, breathing city laid bare by investigation.
... a morally conflicted investigator trapped between personal ethics and a corrupt regime?
March Violets by Philip Kerr
Sebastian breaks rules, intimidates, and bargains with devils—yet still chases justice, even with Jarvis watching. Bernie Gunther in March Violets lives in that same gray zone: a private eye in 1936 Berlin who’ll strong‑arm and bluff to survive while pursuing an ugly truth the authorities would rather bury. If Sebastian’s lethal pragmatism and uneasy conscience hooked you, Bernie’s will, too.
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