Book #11

Start with Where the Heart Leads. Dispatched by Roscoe,
London's gambling king, to learn what "nefarious activity" an

upstanding man-of-business has stumbled upon, Jordan Draper-
Roscoe's own man-of-business-arrives at Thomas Cardwell's office

to discover Cardwell very recently murdered. Soon, Jordan finds
himself working alongside the Adairs and Inspector Stokes as they search for
clues as to why anyone would kill a man as unthreatening as Cardwell.
Unexpectedly, Jordan finds himself drawn to Cardwell's family, especially
Thomas's sister, Ruth, and as the investigation progresses, the greater Jordan's
compulsion to find the murderer and bring the family resolution and respite
grows. Clue by clue, motive by surprising motive, the investigators seek to
identify Cardwell's murderer and, along the way, uncover the "nefarious
activity" he'd sought to bring to the authorities' attention. But in a case
cluttered with intertwined motives and a web of potential suspects related to
each other as well as the victim, finding the kernel of truth amid the chaff is no
easy matter. Only through enlisting the help of the investigators' wider circle of
supporters do they make any headway, and on the heels of uncovering a
cascade of crimes, they finally-finally-close in on the man who murdered
Thomas Cardwell.