Review: Can you imagine Lord Peter Wimsey as a Regency gentleman?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
Samantha Kane - Devil in My Arms - The Saint’s Devils 03Can you imagine Lord Peter Wimsey as a Regency gentleman? That’s our hero, Sir Hilary St. John. And like Lord Peter, his love is in the dock for murder.  Unlike Dorothy Sayers’ Strong Poison, however, Hilary and Eleanor are already lovers when this happens and he’s desperate to save her from the charges leveled against her.The heroine is Eleanor Enderby, a woman on the run from a very bad marriage. She really doesn’t plan on having anything to do with a man ever again, unless it’s to force her horrible husband to just let her go. But there’s this attraction to Sir Hilary…Eleanor is a strong woman, she has to be to escape her husband’s clutches, to move past the mental and physical abuses of her past, and to embrace a future she chooses. And that’s before the public character assassination in the scandal press and the framed for murder part.Hil is determined to live up to no one’s expectations but his own. He is the despair of the marriageable ladies because he finds them foolish beyond reason. Then he meets Eleanor who he finds to be witty, courageous, and not at all foolish. But marriage is out of the question, quite impossible in fact, so an affair is in the cards.Like any good Regency novel it brims with repartee which complements the ins and outs of the mystery. This is the third book in the series and it is obvious that several characters were introduced in earlier books. I haven’t read the first two (although I went and bought them when I finished this one) and didn’t experience any difficulty so I’d say it works as a stand-alone as well as part of a series.The Saint’s Devils seriesThe Devil's Thief (The Saint’s Devils, #1)Tempting a Devil (The Saint’s Devils, #2)Devil In My Arms (The Saint's Devils, #3)Copy received from Netgalley and publisher for an honest review.