title: A Cold-blooded Scoundrel: An Inspector Devlin Mystery
author:  J. S. Cook 
description: The debut of a major new crime series from a celebrated Canadian author! In London, with Jack the Ripper's crimes still raw in the great city's memory, a well-known male prostitute is brutally murdered, the head neatly severed, and the body set on fire. Detective Inspector Phillip Devlin of Scotland Yard, mid-thirties and secretly gay, is called to the murder scene by plainclothes constable Freddie Collins, and soon both Collins and Devlin are caught in a web of intrigue as more savage murders occur. A Cold-Blooded Scoundrel resonates with the sights, sounds, and atmosphere of 1880s London. Witty and engaging, it unfolds the story of a man who must brave not only the killer but also his own inner demons in order to end the violence that is harrowing the city.
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  Dom Fever
  Devlin Black book 2
  Alaska Angelini
  
   
  Dom Fever
  Devlin Black book 2
  Alaska Angelini
  Copyright © 2014 by Alaska Angelini
   
  ISBN:  9781938076381
   
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  Chapter 1
  Devlin
   
  Betrayal causes different reactions for different people. I liked to think of myself as a fairly
  rational man. Calmer than most, I hardly ever raised my voice and wasn’t one to lash out. But there
  was one thing that could spark my temper like nothing else. Being lied to.
  Honesty had been the key foundation I s