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  • Absence of Mercy

  • A Lightner and Law Mystery
  • Written by: S. M. Goodwin
  • Narrated by: Rupert Degas
  • Length: 11 hrs
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Absence of Mercy

Written by: S. M. Goodwin
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
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Jasper Lightner is a decorated Crimean War hero and the most admired inspector in London's Metropolitan Police. Along with a chest full of medals, he's got a head injury that's left large chunks of his memory missing. But Jasper's biggest problem is his father, the Duke of Kersey, who, enraged by a series of front-page newspaper stories extolling Jasper's exploits, decides he's had enough of the embarrassment and uses his political connections to keep his son out of the headlines - and off the police force.

Jasper is sent packing to New York City on a yearlong assignment to train detectives and discovers a police department hovering on the brink of armed conflict. Assigned to investigate the murder of philanthropist and reformer Stephen Finch, Jasper joins forces with a man who might be even more of an outsider than he is: Hieronymus Law, a detective who had investigated two almost identical killings - and who is rumored to have taken money to help frame an innocent woman for murder.

Law is bent on restoring his good name. But can Jasper trust Hy enough to bring him into the investigation? As the city devolves into madness and law enforcement falls into the hands of dangerous gangs, this unlikely team has no choice but to work together to pursue an adversary more sinister than either has faced alone.

©2020 S. M. Goodwin (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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ok

I'm not sure what I think. It was a perfectly serviceable Victorian crime thriller. But there were aspects that, yeah, I wasn't sure of. Weak character development (the protagonist was a trope), weirdly anachronistic social views (which kind of felt like pandering to a modern audience?) and a plot that, when ya look back on it, was... not all that interesting? I don't know.
Basically, it was fine.
Also, the narrator. Same thing. Sometimes I thought, wow, he's really talented, sometimes I thought, really? Really?
Might check out further books, might not. I just really didn't warm to the protagonist enough to make up for the okayness of the story.

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