A homicide case featuring Russian and Spanish aristocrats - and Acton who was supposed to be investigating the others but seemed a little too deferential, for Doyle's taste. Why wasn't her husband moving in on the killder? And why did she have the sense that she was standing on the outside, peering into a worl where there were no laws and no explanations - only birthrights, forged in ancient blood? -- back cover
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