Her later career included her being a partner in an international business consulting firm.Ĭurrently, the author lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with Steve Harris, her husband who is a retired US Army officer (with whom she wrote the Jax Alexander series), two daughters and several cats. in history.īefore becoming a full-time author, Candice was an academic, teaching at the University of Idaho and Midwestern State University in Texas, as well as working as an archaeologist on several dig sites around the world. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with a degree in Classics, after which she received her MA and Ph.D. During her younger years, she traveled and lived in several countries, including Spain, Greece, England, France, Jordan, and Australia. The Babylonian Codex (Jax Alexander #3), 2010Ĭandice grew up surrounded by the army, with her father being a career Air Force Officer.The Solomon Effect (Jax Alexander #2), 2009.The Archangel Project (Jax Alexander #1), 2008.Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St.(Apr.Who Speaks for the Damned, (Sebastian St. Agent: Helen Breitwieser, Cornerstone Literary. The plot develops predictably, but Harris is better than most in investing even minor characters with sometimes heartbreaking humanity.
As in previous books, Devlin crosses swords with his Machiavellian father-in-law, Charles, Lord Jarvis, the “real power behind the Hanovers’ wobbly throne,” who regards the deaths of orphans as trivial compared with the affairs of state. Devlin fears for Sybil’s safety and worries that the man responsible for Benji’s ordeal has claimed other victims. The grisly crime comes to Devlin’s attention after a watchman by chance interrupts the burial of the corpse. After Benji Thatcher’s mother was transported to Botany Bay, the 15-year-old street urchin cared for his younger sister, Sybil, until he was abducted, sexually abused, tortured, and killed. Less memorable is the whodunit involving a search for a serial killer preying on children. Cyr, Viscount Devlin (after 2016’s When Falcons Fall). Moving depictions of life on London’s mean streets are the best parts of Harris’s 12th Regency-era mystery featuring dashing Sebastian St.
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