What Cannot Be Said

A summer picnic in Richmond Park ends in horror when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found murdered, their bodies posed to imitate the stone effigies atop medieval tombs, exactly as two women were found murdered in the same park fourteen years earlier. The man convicted and hanged for those earlier killings may have been innocent, and Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, must determine whether London is facing a copycat killer or whether Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy helped send an innocent man to the gallows.

Amy Scanlon's narration gives this nineteenth series entry its proper weight, managing the dual investigation and the personal stakes for both Sebastian and Lovejoy with precision. The Richmond Park setting, with its royal history and its recurring violence, is rendered with the atmospheric depth that characterizes the best entries in the series. At just under twelve hours, Scanlon handles the series' accumulating personal history alongside the stand-alone mystery with skill.