![]() ![]() Slapping the taper on the mantel, she sneaked a glance over her shoulder. Jerking upright, Lucy Campion swore softly as a bit of hot beeswax stung her wrist. Unless, that is, she can identify the true murderer.Ī great pounding at the door startled the chambermaid bending to light the morning hearth. In a time when the accused are presumed guilty until proven innocent, lawyers are not permitted to defend their clients, and-if the plague doesn’t kill them first-public executions draw a large crowd of spectators, Lucy knows she may never see this person alive again. ![]() A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate by Susanna Calkins An excerpt of A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate, a traditional historical mystery and the first book in the Lucy Campion series by Susanna Calkins (available April 23, 2013).įor Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other household chores until a fellow servant is ruthlessly killed, and someone she loves is wrongly arrested for the crime. ![]()
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