Lovers Lavinia Lake and Tobias March provide "discreet private inquiries for individuals of quality" in London's swank Claremont Lane. Celeste, one of Lavinia's fellow mesmerists, is murdered and the motive may be the mystical bracelet she wore.

"From the author of the wildly successful Dexter series comes a new, mesmerizing bad guy we can root for: Riley Wolfe. He's a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. In this series launch,...