Forget Georgette Heyer’s arch wit and Julia Quinn’s randy Bridgerton. Here’s an altogether murkier take on Regency shenanigans. Daughters of Night begins at a cracking pace with the murder of a high-class doxy in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and never lets up.
Recall Harry Corsham and thief-taker Peregrine Child from Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s excellent Blood & Sugar? Now it is Harry’s wife, Lady Caroline Corsham who employs Child in her quest for justice for a woman she had good reason to like and trust.
The powers that be and the rest of the beau monde do their utmost to discourage them, but Caro persists in a perilous exploration of the darkest corners of London high life to discover the fates of Lucy Loveless,
