Silent in the Grave - Deanna Raybourn

"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave..." This is one of the very last phrases that Sir Edward Grey sees before he dies of a seemingly innocent long-standing illness. The first time his wife, Lady Julia Grey meets the mysterious Nicholas Brisbane, is when he is helping her with her husband who had just collapsed in front of all of their dinner guests. It takes Lady Julia nearly a year before she believes Nicholas' outlandish claims that her husband was in fact murdered. It transpires that Sir Edward approached Brisbane before he died to hire him as a detective as he had been receiving threats against his life. It is only ...  Read the complete review