Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Despite her past experiences with murders, she had not yet learned that the most inescapable force in the world is irony.”

The Rushworth Family Plot: A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery (#4) by Claudia Gray

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To condemn the female of the species for frivolity while simultaneously limiting her to frivolity is patently unjust, and yet grievously common. Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney understand each other (and their own hearts) perfectly; it’s a pity their families do not. A series of misunderstandings, misplaced pride, and—indeed—prejudice, never mind that Fitzwilliam Darcy is a judgemental prig, has led their fathers to deem the pair unsuited to wed (but more like the other father unsuited as their child’s in-law. And Darcy is a judgemental […]

“The Church, like the monarchy, was a valuable bastion of defense against the dangerous alliance of atheistical philosophy with political radicalism. The Bible taught the poorer orders that their lowly path had been allotted to them by the hand of God, and the Church was there to make quite certain they understood that.”

When Gods Die: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery (Book #2) by C.S. Harris

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When the young wife of an aging marquis is found stabbed to death in the Prince Regent’s arms, the matter must be solved discreetly. Sebastian St. Cyr, sole surviving son of Count Devlin has no idea why he has been asked to investigate; he doesn’t really know the Prince Regent, and he said after the last invesstigation he had no desire to solve another. That is before he spies the necklace around the corpse’s throat; a necklace said to have been given to a Druid […]

The Forgotten Children of London (And Cannonball!)

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This is the 12th (!) Sebastian St. Cyr mystery, which means I have come to the end of the published books.  I have really enjoyed the entire series, and Ms Harris has done an excellent job of keeping the storylines interesting.  Coming to the end of this is probably not a bad thing with the warmer weather and my lack of free time to read as much as before.  It also coincides with my 52nd book and reaching Cannonball! Over the course of three years […]

Murder in a Small Village

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Book 11 in the series moves Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, out of London to the seemingly sleepy Shropshire village to visit the grandmother of Jamie Knox (a man who was most likely a half-brother, and killed in the last book because of his resemblance to Devlin) and to hopefully uncover more clues to his parentage.  Alas, even in such peaceful surroundings the grim reaper raises its ugly head.  A young woman is discovered dead on the bank of the river, and all indications point […]

He’s Lost His Head – How Frightfully Gauche

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Book 10 in the Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series begins with a grisly discovery of a decapitated man at Bloody Bridge, his head mounted on a spike.  The man was Stanley Preston, a wealthy man who owned a plantation in the West Indies.  He was also a man who collected mummified heads (what fun), and a lead coffin strap linked to King Charles 1648 was found near his body, indicating he may have been lured to his death with the promise of the head.  As […]

The Lost Prince

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Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman entangles Sebastian in the deadly riddle of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared during the darkest days of the French Revolution. In one of the poorest areas in London, two bodies are discovered – a woman, near death and a man, dead with his heart viciously removed.  Paul Gibson, a surgeon/anatomist, has stumbled across this gruesome scene as he was heading home.  […]



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