Lacking Natural Simplicity

Lord John and the Private Matter, by Diana Gabaldon; A Delacorte Book, published by Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, Inc, October 2003. This is the first of Gabaldon's novels about Lord John Grey, and the first of Gabaldon's works that I've read. A historical mystery set at the beginning of the Seven Years War, it takes a short but sympathetic look in passing at the gay subculture of London. It's a fairly good historical; I'll have to look and see what her other books are like.