title: Rustle of Silk: A new forensic mystery series set in Stuart England (A Gabriel Taverner Mystery)
author:  Alys Clare 
description: "Clare has carefully researched the period she is writing about and offers authentic, engaging historical detail, but her real gift is as a superb storyteller whose clever, twisty plots; believable characters; and skillful writing will engross the reader from first page to last (<i>Booklist Starred Review</i>)<br /><br />Clare vividly evokes 17th-century Devon. Characters who are complex individuals complement the well-paced and pleasantly twisty plot (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)
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  London, 1814
  
  A season of secrets, scandal and seduction!
  
  A darkly dangerous stranger is out for revenge, delivering a silken rope as
  his calling card. Through him, a long-forgotten scandal is reawakened. The
  notorious events of 1794, which saw one man murdered and another hanged for
  the crime, are ripe gossip in the ton. Was the right culprit brought to
  justice or is there a treacherous murderer still at large?
  
  As the murky waters of the past are disturbed, so servants find love with
  roguish lords, and proper ladies fall for rebellious outcasts until, finally,
  the true murderer and spy is revealed.
  
  Regency Silk & Scandal
  
  From glittering ballrooms to a Cornish smuggler’s cove; from the wilds of
  Scotland to a Romany camp—join the highest and lowest in society as they find
  love in this thrilling new eight-book miniseries!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  If you met Hal Carlow in the first of this Silk & Scandal miniseries, The Lord
  and the Wayward Lady, you will remembe