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Chargement... Why Kings Confess: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery (édition 2015)par C.S. Harris
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Why Kings Confess is a mystery full of twists and turns, involving both Sebastian's past and whether or not the lost dauphin/Louis XVII secretly survived. Even though Hero is heavily pregnant in this entry in the series, she still helps to solve the murder and save the day before she gives birth. This book introduces Alexandrie Sauvage, a French woman who trained to be a doctor in Italy, but is not allowed to be more than a midwife in England. Certainly her advice to Hero is much better than that of the most acclaimed accoucher [one who assists at birth] in London, a pompous man whose methods made me want to scream and bop him on the head with the latest edition of Williams Obstetrics. The question of Louis XVII's survival was more or less answered in 2000 with DNA testing on the heart saved by Dr. Philippe-Jean Pelleton: he probably didn't. Walking through London late one night, Sebastian St Cyr comes across a member of a French delegation who has been brutally murdered. His companion is severely injured. The circumstances are so awful, and so bizarre, that he takes it upon himself to find the perpetrator. Sebastian’s investigations typically involve talking to lots of different people who had dealings with the victim, and piecing together tiny details from each conversation to eventually crack the case. Meanwhile, Sebastian’s wife will soon give birth to their first child, and the stress level rises when they learn it will be a breech birth. This was a life-threatening situation in the early 1800s. When their accoucher (a male midwife) decides not to be involved in something so risky, the couple must rely on other sources of support, which at first they don’t fully trust. These parallel storylines proceed nicely towards resolution, with some satisfying developments for other characters as well. As usual, a solid read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"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.... "-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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First, there were SO MANY CHARACTERS. I simply couldn't keep track, and eventually just had to let the names wash over me without impression.
Second, almost every scene had the hero, Sebastian St. Cyr, asking questions of someone about the murder of Dr. Pelletan. I know it's an investigation, but after a while the scenes seemed all the same: St. Cyr asks someone about the murder, they deny everything, he learns nothing. Or he learns a small something. On to the next.
Third, there's a LOT of talking about the missing/presumed dead heir to the French throne, the lost Dauphin. I get that this is a big deal, but St. Cyr repeatedly goes over the same information as he talks to all the people. Enough already! Summary, please!
So with all that, it only gets three stars from me, and an ambivalence about reading more in this series. ( )