Heir Apparent - Grossey, Susan

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Résumé :
A young man returns to London from the family plantation in the Caribbean after an absence of six years to be at his father's deathbed - and to inherit his estate. But is the new arrival who he says he is, or an impostor? Anyone who doubts his identity seems to meet an untimely end, but his sister swears that he is her beloved brother. With their investigations leading them into the complicated world of inheritance law and due process after death, Constable Sam Plank and his loyal lieutenant William Wilson come face to face with the death trade and those who profit from it - legally or otherwise. Among them is an old enemy who has used his cunning and ruthlessness to rise through the ranks of London's criminal world. And, in this sixth novel in the series, it's now 1829: as plans progress for a new police force for the metropolis, Sam and his wife Martha look to the future....

Biographie:
For twenty-five years I ran my own anti-money laundering consultancy, which gave me almost limitless opportunity to write about my very favourite subject: money laundering. And the obsession with understanding the mechanics and motivations of financial crime has only grown.I have spent years haunting the streets of Regency London, in the company of magistrates' constable Sam Plank. He is the narrator of my series of seven historical financial crime novels set in consecutive years in the 1820s - just before Victoria came to the throne, and in the policing period after the Bow Street Runners and before the Metropolitan Police.The fourth Sam Plank novel - Portraits of Pretence - was given the Book of the Year 2017 award by influential book review website Discovering Diamonds. And the fifth - Faith, Hope and Trickery - was shortlisted for the Selfies Award 2019.My new series is the Cambridge Hardiman Mysteries, set in Cambridge in the 1820s and narrated by a university constable called Gregory Hardiman....

Sommaire:
I have been in love with words ever since I realised, at age three, that those squiggles on the page actually meant something. I edited the school newspaper (is here the place to confess that I was also the author of the section giving all the gossip on who was going out with whom?) and did lots more reading and writing at university (where, of course, I studied English).For twenty-five years I ran my own anti-money laundering consultancy, which gave me almost limitless opportunity to write about my very favourite subject: money laundering. And the obsession with understanding the mechanics and motivations of financial crime has only grown.I have spent years haunting the streets of Regency London, in the company of magistrates' constable Sam Plank. He is the narrator of my series of historical financial crime novels set in consecutive years in the 1820s - just before Victoria came to the throne, and in the policing period after the Bow Street Runners and before the Metropolitan Police.The fourth Sam Plank novel - Portraits of Pretence - was given the Book of the Year 2017 award by influential book review website Discovering Diamonds. And the fifth - Faith, Hope and Trickery - was shortlisted for the Selfies Award 2019.And I am now researching the first in a new series set in Cambridge in the 1820s, narrated by a university constable called Gregory Hardiman....