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Death Among the Ruins - A Lucy Campion Mystery Main edition
Susanna Calkins
Death Among the Ruins - A Lucy Campion Mystery Main edition
Susanna Calkins
Midnight assignations, dresses fit to meet the queen . . . and murder most horrid! Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion investigates a puzzling death in this thrilling historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London.
London, 1668. Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is suspicious when she meets a young ragpicker who claims to have fine clothes to sell from a lady of quality. Are the garments stolen . . . or something worse?
Her suspicions are soon realized when the clothes are identified as belonging to a recently deceased elderly aristocrat. Young Mercy Sykes has robbed a grave! Mercy is arrested, and it's only thanks to Lucy's intervention that the ragpicker, who has a disabled sister who depends on her, isn't locked up.
Lucy doesn't expect to see Mercy again, but their meeting soon has unexpected consequences. For when Mercy finds a dead woman in the ruins of Christchurch, dressed in unexpected finery, it's to Lucy who she turns for help . . .
Lucy Campion is a feisty working-class heroine, plying her trade as a printer's apprentice in Renaissance London. If you're new to the series (it's safe to jump right in), we can't wait for you to meet her in this twisty, puzzle-packed historical mystery, brimming with authenticity!
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240 pages, No
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 6, 2023 |
ISBN13 | 9781448306145 |
Publishers | Canongate Books |
Pages | 240 |
Dimensions | 225 × 147 × 24 mm · 422 g |
Language | English |
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