Adeline is, as Bowen’s heroines tend to be, resilient, brave, resourceful and very good at her chosen profession. I’m not sure what background I imagined for him, but I’ve been hoping he would get his own story for a long time now. No one becomes a feared and undisputed crime boss in London without everyone believing you are utterly ruthless and without weakness. I’ve always liked King and suspected that he was more moral than some of his previous appearances made him seem. King makes a deal with the deadly Adeline Archambault and promises her more than she ever believed was possible, if she stays in London and helps him finally get justice from the man who betrayed him. Lucky for him, there is a woman of unique talents when it comes to delivering justice, whom he caught trying to steal from him. He discovers that a man he believed to be dead, a man who ruined his childhood and set him pretty directly on the path to where he is now, has resurfaced in London, and is hell bent on revenge. A shadowy London crime lord with connections to smuggling, art forgery, theft and all sorts of other untoward business, he is not a man to cross. In this novella which concludes Kelly Bowen’s The Devils of Dover series, we finally find out more about the mysterious King, who has been popping up in Bowen’s books for a long time.
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