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    The Executioner's Heart (Newbury and Hobbes, #4)

    by George Mann

    Readers: 1 · Shelf entries: 1

    Published: 2013

    Pages: 351

    Average rating: ★★★★☆ 4.00

    Ratings: 1 total

Synopsis

In Executioner's Heart--the fourth Newbury & Hobbes steampunk mystery from George Mann--the detectives are up against the most frightening villainess England has yet seen.

It's normal for Charles Bainbridge, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, to be called to the scene of a crime, but this is the third murder in quick succession where the victim's chest has been cracked open and their heart torn out.

Bainbridge suspects there's a symbolic reason for the stolen hearts, so he sends for supernatural specialist Sir Maurice Newbury and his determined assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes. Unfortunately, neither of them are in much shape to take the case.

Veronica has been hunting for some way to alleviate the mysterious forces that have been hounding her family of late, and Newbury has been retained by a private client: Edward, Prince of Wales, who's concerned that his mother, the Queen of England, i…

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    The Executioner's Heart (Newbury and Hobbes, #4)

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