When Falcons Fall
A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery #11
by C. S. Harris
Obsidian
March 1, 2016
ISBN-10: 0451471164
ISBN-13: 9780451471161
Available in: Hardcover
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When Falcons Fall
by C. S. Harris
The much-anticipated new entrée in the Sebastian
St. Cyr “simply elegant”* historical mystery
series, from the national bestselling author of Who
Buries the Dead and Why Kings Confess.
Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr,
Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful
Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to
learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a
lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme, a
bottle of laudanum at her side, the village’s
inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help.
Almost immediately, Sebastian realizes that Emma Chance did
not, in truth, take her own life. Less easy to discern is
exactly how she died, and why. For as Sebastian and Hero
soon discover, Emma was hiding both her true identity and
her real reasons for traveling to Ayleswick. Also troubling
are the machinations of Lucien Bonaparte, the estranged
brother of the megalomaniac French Emperor Napoleon. Held
captive under the British government’s watchful eye,
the younger Bonaparte is restless, ambitious, and treacherous.
Sebastian’s investigation takes on new urgency when he
discovers that Emma was not the first, or even the second,
beautiful young woman in the village to die under suspicious
circumstances. Home to the eerie ruins of an ancient
monastery, Ayleswick reveals itself to be a dark and
dangerous place of secrets that have festered among the
villagers for decades—and a violent past that may be
connected to Sebastian’s own unsettling origins. And
as he faces his most diabolical opponent ever, he is forced
to consider what malevolence he’s willing to embrace
in order to destroy a killer.
*Lisa Gardner
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C. S. Harris' Bio
Candice Proctor, aka C.S. Harris and C.S. Graham, is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of more than two dozen novels including the Sebastian St. Cyr Regency mystery series written under the name C.S. Harris, the C.S. Graham thriller series co-written with Steven Harris, and seven historical romances. She is also the author of a nonfiction historical study of women in the French Revolution. Her books are available worldwide and have been translated into over twenty languages. A former academic with a PhD in European history, Candice also worked as an archaeologist on a variety of sites including a Hudson’s Bay Company Fort in San Juan Island, a Cherokee village in Tennessee, a prehistoric kill site in Victoria, Australia, and a Roman cemetery and medieval manor house in Winchester, England. She loves to travel and has spent much of her life abroad, living in Spain, Greece, England, France, Jordan, and Australia. She now makes her home in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband, retired Army officer Steve Harris, and an ever-expanding number of cats.