Murder always sells. But when a series of dark and puzzling crimes takes place in seventeenthcentury London, will printers apprentice Lucy Campion be publishing the news or starring in it?London, 1667. Printers apprentice Lucy Campion is unsettled when, on a frozen December morning after church, an elderly woman dressed in mourning clothes whispers an ominous warning in her ear.Lucy sternly tells herself its nonsense, but then her muchloved former master, Magistrate Hargrave, is viciously attacked with a brass hourglass during a breakin. But what exactly was the intruder searching for? And why did they first stop to steal a piece of Cooks lamb and lentil pie?The puzzling case is just the start of a series of dark, bizarre crimes. Lucys determined to uncover the truth and see that justice is done. But someone is equally determined to stop her whatever it takes.This pageturning historical mystery set in Renaissance London is a great choice for readers who like their heroines lively, their mysteries twisty and their historical settings brimming with authenticity.

Binding: Hardback;240 pages; Publisher: Canongate Books; Classification: FFH; Weight: 558 g; Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 25

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