#88 The Ripper Affair by Lilith Saintcrow

The third book in the series has Clair dealing with loss and new information on just what Bannon did in order to save his life at the end of book two. Clare has tried pulling away from the world and refusing requests to work until the Queen shows up at her house and finally gets her involved in a case. With this case you find out more about Clare's childhood and even at the level she lives now where she came from still affects how people interact with her. This does touch on the the Jack the Ripper cases but the murders are used to magically fuel someone trying to take over England.  I really lie the setting and the background that go into this story universe and I'm bummed that I don't know if there will ever be any more. It is a nice melding of Steam technology and magic that really works.

#89 Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh

The romance couple in this one is a Psy that has had her memory erased and been given compulsions to kill the human that she has been dumped off at his door. Dev is the leader of Shine, a group that tracks down descendants of Psy that refused the Silence and hid themselves so well that not even their children knew their past. Honestly it felt a bit silly the risks he was taking knowing she was was a trap and that as the story progressed she was also dying. The B story with the Psy did advance that plot line along pretty well and does change how the Council split is going along the Pure Psy lines.