A Covent Garden Mystery — Ashley Gardner

Cashiered cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey of the 35th Light Dragoons lost much on the battlefield during the Peninsular Campaign. But be still retains his innate sense of right and wrong when faced with injustice...

Young women are disappearing from Covent Garden -- street girls the magistrates care nothing about -- and a kind-hearted Thames River patroller asks Lacey to look into the matter. But that isn't Lacey's only problem. His estranged wife has returned to London looking to end her marriage with Lacey. A divorce would cause a great scandal, but Lacey wishes for one so that they may both pursue their own lives.

Then Lacey's seventeen-year-old daughter, Gabriella disappears. In his desperate search for her, Lacey enlists help from friends old and new in turning over every stone in London. But as he hunts for his daughter he uncovers secrets about his wife's past -- and his own life -- that he must face before he can stop a killer...