Napoleon is locked up and it is time for the British fighting men to come home. One such is Captain Viscount Desborough, Viscount no longer upon the death of his father, the Sixth Earl of St. Erth.
Desborough, aka Gervase, was not liked by his father who favored Gervase's younger half-brother, Martin. Martin has grown up to be a spoiled brat who always thought Gervase would not survive the war and that he, Martin, would be the Earl when their father died. So when that didn't happen, Martin had a hard time adjusting to the reality and deeply resented his elder brother's ascension to the title.
So Gervase has returned home to the family estate to take up his position as the Seventh Earl. But it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to remove Gervase from this position and all the clues seem to point to young Martin.
This was an OK read. It's not one of my favorite Heyer romances, as the culprit is pretty clear from the get-go. The real villain is oddly portrayed as a really decent guy and it seems so completely out of character for this man to be capable of so callous a murder.
Heyer did write a lot of murder mysteries and I have read some of them. But I have not enjoyed them as much as I liked her Regency romances. Too much of her murder style leaks into this story which taints it, in my opinion.
Here is a review by Deb Barnum from Austenprose.
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