Books Details
Author : Kate Ross Pages : 339 pages Publisher : Penguin
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 756743.Cut_to_the_Quick ISBN-13 :
9780670848478
Books Descriptions
Julian Kestrel is the reigning dandy of 1820s London, famous
for elegant clothes and unflappable sangfroid. One night he
rescues a young aristocrat named Hugh Fontclair from a gambling
house, and in gratitude Hugh invites him to be best man at his
wedding. But when Kestrel goes to stay with the Fontclairs at
their sumptuous country house, he is caught in the crossfire of
the bride's and groom's warring families. Soon, discord erupts
into murder. In a world without fingerprinting, chemical
analysis, or even police, murder poses a baffling challenge.
Undaunted, Kestrel sets out to solve the crime. With the help
of his Cockney manservant, Dipper a (mostly) reformed
pickpocket, Kestrel delves beneath the Fontclairs' respectable
surface. What he finds is a trail of crime, deception, and
forbidden lust that leads him at last to the killer.
