Maybe don’t read this over lunch like I did? By which I mean, it’s grisly horror, and it’s very good and effective, because KJ Charles. She can write anything from Georgette Heyer to penny dreadfuls and it’s worth the ink. I’d read more about all of these characters, especially Ingestrie, and he gets the least page time as any. Maybe not over lunch, though. Yeah, maybe not over lunch.
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Edited to add: I collect good opening lines, and this one makes the cut:
In the time of England’s steep decline, when Victor II sprawled on the throne and lost colonies as carelessly as a child loses toys, there stood a number of institutions that should never have been permitted to exist.
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