Saturday, 10 May 2025

Review: An Unnatural Vice

An Unnatural Vice An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Justin Lazarus is called the 'Seer of London' and claims to be able to contact the spirit world, of course in reality its psychology, research, leading the witness, and good old fashioned picking of pockets to discover hooks.

Nathaniel Roy is a former lawyer turned crusading journalist who has been asked by his editor to bring down Lazarus and expose him as a fraud - his wife is frequenting another spiritualist and he is worried that she is being conned out of her money.

In disguise Roy attends a group seance and is at once both appalled and attracted to Lazarus, and ashamed of himself for being drawn to such a conman. Roy had been greatly in love with a man called Tony until he was killed some six years ago.

Roy is helping his friend Clem Talleyfer track down his brother's lost twins (the story is told in the previous book), the boy twin is now the Earl of Moreton following his father's suicide/murder if he can be tracked down. Unbeknownst to both of them, Lazarus has vital information, the twins' mother visited him the previous year desperate to find her children who had run away when they were fourteen years old. She left Lazarus with a portrait of the three of them, but never returned.

But it seems there are several people looking for the twins and some of them will stop at nothing to prevent them from proving their claim. As London is enveloped in a choking fog, Lazarus is abducted and the only man he can turn to is Roy.

I loved this, enemies to love, aristocratic shenanigans, sleight of hand, its all here.

View all my reviews

No comments:

Post a Comment

Review: An Academic Affair

An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have been bitte...