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C. S. Harris; Sebastian St. Cyr, Books 1-16

[01]

What Angels Fear
Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 1
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 1
Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 12-24-14
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
It’s 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III’s England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man – Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.

[02]

When Gods Die
Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 2
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 2
Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-06-15
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
The young wife of an aging marquis is found murdered in the arms of the Prince Regent. Around her neck lies a necklace said to have been worn by Druid priestesses – that is, until it was lost at sea with its last owner, Sebastian St. Cyr’s mother. Now Sebastian is lured into a dangerous investigation of the marchioness’s death – and his mother’s uncertain fate.

As he edges closer to the truth-and one murder follows another – he confronts a conspiracy that imperils those nearest him and threatens to bring down the monarchy.

[03]

Why Mermaids Sing
Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 3
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 3
Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 09-09-15
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
Murder has jarred London’s elite. The sons of prominent families have been found at dawn in public places, partially butchered, with strange objects stuffed in their mouths. Once again the local magistrate turns to Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help. Moving from the gritty world of London’s docks to the drawing rooms of Mayfair, Sebastian confronts his most puzzling – and disturbing – case yet.

[04]

Where Serpents Sleep
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 4
Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-28-15
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
Fourth in the “moody and atmospheric” historical mystery series starring “a troubled but compelling antihero” (Booklist).

London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Garden leaves only one survivor – and one witness: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the prince regent’s cousin, Lord Jarvis. When the Machiavellian power broker quashes any official inquiry that might reveal his daughter’s unorthodox presence, Hero launches an investigation of her own and turns to Sebastian St. Cyr, viscount Devlin, for help.

Working in an uneasy alliance, Hero and Sebastian follow a trail of clues leading from the seedy brothels and docksides of London’s East End to the Mayfair mansions of a noble family with dark secrets to hide. Risking both their lives and their reputations, the two must race against time to stop a killer whose ominous plot threatens to shake the nation to its very core.

[05]

What Remains of Heaven
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 5
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-08-16
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
Sebastian St. Cyr’s search for the killer of the controversial bishop of London leads him from the back alleys of Smithfield to the power corridors of Whitehall to the well-guarded secrets of his own family’s past. Long-festering family secrets, treachery, and worse threaten Sebastian St. Cyr in Harris’ addictive fifth Regency-era mystery starring the dashing soldier turned sleuth.

From the start, St. Cyr’s mission is sensitive: finding out who killed the bishop of London, a leading candidate for archbishop of Canterbury, in the crypt of the same country church where the mummified body of another murder victim was discovered only hours earlier. It becomes downright dangerous once the charismatic viscount unearths the surprising connection between the men as well as the many powerful enemies with motives for their murder – including his own father.

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Where Shadows Dance
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 6
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 09-06-11
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
Drawing upon her background in ancient history and her experiences on archaeological digs, author C.S. Harris crafts authentic, compelling novels that appear regularly on best-seller lists and have won numerous awards. In 1812, surgeon Paul Gibson discovers a stiletto wound in the base of a corpse’s skull and immediately contacts Sebastian St. Cyr. And when another body turns up with the same injury, the lives of St. Cyr’s family are threatened if he doesn’t back off. Now, the pressure’s on to find the culprit before anyone else gets killed.

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When Maidens Mourn
A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, Book 7
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 7
Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-06-12
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
Best-selling author C.S. Harris has received numerous awards for her historical fiction. Set in Regency England, this seventh series installment finds aristocratic investigator St. Cyr and his reluctant bride, Hero Jarvis, entangled in a dangerous mystery involving the myth of King Arthur and Camelot.

[08]

What Darkness Brings
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 8
Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-13-13
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
C.S. Harris’ best-selling Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries transport listeners back to the elegance and courtly drama of Regency England. When a wealthy diamond merchant turns up dead, Sebastian sets out to prove the innocence of the man accused – his former lover Kat’s husband. A missing gem seems to be the key, but as Sebastian traces its origins, he discovers unsettling ties to black magic.

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Why Kings Confess
A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 9
Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-06-14
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
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.

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Who Buries the Dead
Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 10
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 10
Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-06-15
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr’s past combine to put C. S. Harris’s “troubled but compelling antihero” (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery. London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, into a macabre and increasingly perilous investigation. The discovery near the body of an aged lead coffin strap bearing the inscription King Charles, 1648 suggests a link between this killing and the beheading of the deposed seventeenth-century Stuart monarch. Equally troubling, the victim’s kinship to the current Home Secretary draws the notice of Sebastian’s powerful father-in-law, Lord Jarvis, who will exploit any means to pursue his own clandestine ends.

Working in concert with his fiercely independent wife, Hero, Sebastian finds his inquiries taking him from the wretched back alleys of Fish Street Hill to the glittering ballrooms of Mayfair as he amasses a list of suspects who range from an eccentric Chelsea curiosity collector to the brother of an unassuming but brilliantly observant spinster named Jane Austen. But as one brutal murder follows another, it is the connection between the victims and ruthless former army officer Sinclair, Lord Oliphant, that dramatically raises the stakes. Once, Oliphant nearly destroyed Sebastian in a horrific wartime act of carnage and betrayal. Now the vindictive former colonel might well pose a threat not only to Sebastian but to everything – and everyone – Sebastian holds most dear.

[11]

When Falcons Fall
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 11
Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-01-16
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
The much-anticipated new entree in the Sebastian St. Cyr “simply elegant” (Lisa Gardner) historical mystery series, from the national best-selling 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.

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Where the Dead Lie
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 12
Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-04-17
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
In the latest mystery from the national best-selling author of When Falcons Fall, the gruesome murder of a young boy takes Sebastian St. Cyr from the gritty streets of London to the glittering pleasure haunts of the aristocracy….

London, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is no stranger to the dark side of the city, but he’s never seen anything like this: the brutalized body of a 15-year-old boy dumped into a makeshift grave on the grounds of an abandoned factory. One of London’s many homeless children, Benji Thatcher was abducted and tortured before his murder – and his younger sister is still missing. Few in authority care about a street urchin’s fate, but Sebastian refuses to let this killer go unpunished. Uncovering a disturbing pattern of missing children, Sebastian is drawn into a shadowy, sadistic world. As he follows a grim trail that leads from the writings of the debauched Marquis de Sade to the city’s most notorious brothels, he comes to a horrifying realization: Someone from society’s upper echelon is preying upon the city’s most vulnerable. And though dark, powerful forces are moving against him, Sebastian will risk his reputation and his life to keep more innocents from harm….

[13]

Why Kill the Innocent
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 13
Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-03-18
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
In the newest mystery from the national best-selling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits.

London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift. Jane Ambrose’s ties to Princess Charlotte, the only child of the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, panic the palace, which moves quickly to shut down any investigation into the death of the talented pianist. But Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife Hero refuse to allow Jane’s murderer to escape justice.

Untangling the secrets of Jane’s world leads Sebastian into a maze of dangerous treachery where each player has his or her own unsavory agenda and no one can be trusted. As the Thames freezes over and the people of London pour onto the ice for a Frost Fair, Sebastian and Hero find their investigation circling back to the palace and building to a chilling crescendo of deceit and death….

[14]

Who Slays the Wicked
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 14
Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-02-19
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today best-selling author of Why Kill the Innocent….

When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. Just seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding one of his longtime friends and companions in the kidnapping and murder of a string of vulnerable street children. But Sebastian was never able to prove Ashworth’s complicity. Nor was he able to prevent his troubled, headstrong young niece Stephanie from entering into a disastrous marriage with the dangerous nobleman.

Stephanie has survived the difficult birth of twin sons. But Sebastian soon discovers that her marriage has quickly degenerated into a sham. Ashworth abandoned his pregnant bride at his father’s Park Street mansion and has continued living an essentially bachelor existence. And mounting evidence – ranging from a small bloody handprint to a woman’s silk stocking – suggests that Ashworth’s killer was a woman.

Sebastian is tasked with unraveling the shocking nest of secrets surrounding Ashworth’s life to keep Stephanie from being punished for his death.

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Who Speaks for the Damned
Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries, Book 15
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr, Book 15
Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-07-20
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder in this enthralling new historical mystery from the USA Today best-selling author of Why Kill the Innocent….

It’s June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regent’s invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British nobleman long thought dead.

Eighteen years before, Nicholas Hayes, the third son of the late Earl of Seaford, was accused of killing a beautiful young French emigre and transported to Botany Bay for life. Even before his conviction, Hayes had been disowned by his father, and few in London were surprised when they heard the ne’er-do-well had died in disgrace in New South Wales. But those reports were obviously wrong. Recently Hayes returned to London with a mysterious young boy in tow – a child who vanishes shortly after Nicholas’s body is discovered.

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is drawn into the investigation by his valet, Jules Calhoun, an old friend of the dead man. With Calhoun’s help, Sebastian begins to piece together the shattered life of the late Earl’s ill-fated youngest son. Why did Nicholas risk his life and freedom by returning to England? And why did he bring the now-missing young boy with him? Several nervous Londoners had reason to fear that Nicholas Hayes had returned to kill them. One of them might have decided to kill him first.

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What the Devil Knows
Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries, Book 16
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Series: Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries, Book 16
Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-06-21
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary
Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious killer had been brought to justice until a shocking series of gruesome new murders stuns the city in this thrilling historical mystery from the USA Today best-selling author of Who Speaks for the Damned.

It’s October 1814. The war with France is finally over, and Europe’s diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together. With peace finally at hand, London suddenly finds itself in the grip of a series of heinous murders eerily similar to the Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before.

In 1811, two entire families were viciously murdered in their homes. A suspect – a young seaman named John Williams – was arrested. But before he could be brought to trial, Williams hanged himself in his cell. The murders ceased, and London slowly began to breathe easier. But when the lead investigator, Sir Edwin Pym, is killed in the same brutal way three years later and others possibly connected to the original case meet violent ends, the city is paralyzed with terror once more.

Was the wrong man arrested for the murders? Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for assistance. Pym’s colleagues are convinced his manner of death is a coincidence, but Sebastian has his doubts. The more he looks into the three-year-old murders, the more certain he becomes that the hapless John Williams was not the real killer. Which begs the question – who was and why are they dead set on killing again?