Harris will publisher her next book on April 2, 2019. She lives with her husband in New Orleans and has two grown daughters.Following her latest USA Today bestselling historical fiction novel, Why Kill the Innocent, author C.S. A respected scholar with a PhD in nineteenth-century Europe, she is also the author of a nonfiction historical study of the French Revolution. Graham, a thriller series coauthored with former intelligence officer Steven Harris and seven award-winning historical romances written under the name Candice Proctor. Harris is the USA Today bestselling author of more than two dozen novels, including the Sebastian St. One of them might have decided to kill him first. 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. With Calhouns help, Sebastian begins to piece together the shattered life of the late Earls ill-fated youngest son. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is drawn into the investigation by his valet, Jules Calhoun, an old friend of the dead man. Recently Hayes returned to London with a mysterious young boy in tow-a child who vanishes shortly after Nicholass body is discovered. Even before his conviction, Hayes had been disowned by his father, and few in London were surprised when they heard the neer-do-well had died in disgrace in New South Wales.

Eighteen years before, Nicholas Hayes, the third son of the late Earl of Seaford, was accused of killing a beautiful young French migr and transported to Botany Bay for life. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British nobleman long thought dead.

Its June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regents invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napolon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder in this enthralling new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent.

Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris