The Midwife's Tale
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- Synopsis
- [From inside front dust jacket flap:] "It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the king and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burned alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer. Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who's far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure from Martha's past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city's most powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther's murdered husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand." In the tradition of Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death and C. J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake series comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, ..."
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 310 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250010766
- Publisher:
- Minotaur Books
- Date of Addition:
- 07/16/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Samuel Thomas
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Marilyn
- Proofread By:
- Lissi
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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