Who Speaks for the Damned

C.S. Harris

Apr 2020 · RB Media · Narrated by Davina Porter

About this audiobook

Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder in this
enthralling new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Slays the Wicked. ...

It’s June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the
Prince Regent’s invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoléon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout
Europe. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British
nobleman long thought dead.

Eighteen years before, Nicholas Hayes, the third son of the late Earl of Seaforth, was accused of killing a beautiful
young French émigré and then transported to Botany Bay for life. Even before his conviction, Hayes had been disowned
by his father, and few in London were surprised when they heard the ne’er-do-well had died a convict in New South
Wales. But those reports were obviously wrong. Recently Hayes returned to London with a mysterious young boy in
tow—a child who vanishes shortly after Nicholas’s body is discovered.

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is drawn into the investigation by his valet, Jules Calhoun, an old friend of the
dead man. With Calhoun’s help, Sebastian begins to piece together the shattered life of the late Earl’s ill-fated youngest
son. Why did Nicholas risk his life and freedom by returning to England? And why did he bring the now-missing
young boy with him? Several nervous Londoners had reason to fear that Nicholas Hayes had returned to kill them.
One of them might have decided to kill him first.

About the author

C. S. Harris is the pen name for Candice Proctor, who received a B. A. in classics and an M. A. and Ph.D in European history. She taught history at the University of Idaho and Midwestern State University in Texas. She also worked as an archaeologist on a variety of sites including a Hudson's Bay Company Fort in San Juan Island, a Cherokee village in Tennessee, a prehistoric kill site in Victoria, Australia, and a Roman cemetery and medieval manor house in Winchester, England. She spent many years as a partner in an international business consulting firm. She writes novels under the names Candice Proctor, C. S. Harris, and C. S. Graham. She writes the Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Ser. under the name C. S. Harris. She is also the author of a nonfiction historical study of women in the French Revolution. Davina Porter is known for the sheer beauty of her voice and her always-intelligent renditions of both classic and popular literature. A founding narrator with Recorded Books, Porter has an impressive list of classics in her audiography, including Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. Her celebrated readings of Gabaldon's Outlander series have many fans. She won the 2006 Audie Award for Best Female Narrator with A Breath of Snow and Ashes.