![]() ![]() Jasper is aristocratic but egalitarian, handsome, and rich, but his perfection is marred by a stutter. Goodwin has created some marvelous characters, both major and minor, and populates them in a NYC that rings true to the times with pre-Civil War politics and Tammany Hall. He all but breaks his assistant, Heironymous Law, out of jail so they can work together on this case. Jasper faces both the American fasciation with and prejudice against titled Brits, the latter of which survives though the Revolutionary War ended some 80 years earlier. He’s immediately sucked into the case of a grisly murder which appears to be connected with two that occur earlier and another that occurs later. ![]() ![]() In 1857 Jasper is sent to New York City to train American policemen on investigative techniques. The second son of a duke, Jasper inherits enough money to become independent of his cold-hearted father and begins working as a Detective Inspector on London’s Metropolitan police. Goodwin pulled me into Absence of Mercy immediately with her descriptions of Jasper Lightner, a Crimean War hero with post-traumatic stress syndrome and a traumatic brain injury. ![]()
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