Christopher M. (gilesgoatboy) reviewed on 3/23/2020 + 60 more book reviews

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Readers who enjoyed Bruce Alexander's outstanding Sir John Fielding series will rejoice in going back to the same era and reading this new series featuring Robert Fairfax, the half-English half-French tutor who, in his first position found himself obliged to defend his 19 yr. old pupil from a charge of murder. After those events, he now becomes embroiled in investigating the apparently brutal triple homicides of the driver and passengers of a public provincial northbound coach, presumed to be the work of a local area highwayman.
Hannah March captures the character of the period and presents a well-rendered gallery of rogues, villains and some vixens to rouse, then hold, her readers' interest.
Note: Other reviewers have incorrectly referred to this series as "Regency" or even worse "Edwardian" while it is, in fact, neither. It is quite clearly Georgian which is a good two centuries before Edwardian which began the twentieth century. Think "Tom Jones" or "Moll Flanders" and that will give a more accurate picture of the times described in this series.

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