Historical genealogical murder mystery based on a true crime
In the Spring of 1911, suffragist Louisa Russell finds an old diary in a box of artefacts, while attending a census evasion night at the Old Museum in Ipswich.
The diary recounts the last days of Mary Emily Cage, executed for the murder of her husband six decades earlier.
When Louisa’s next door neighbour, Charles Drummond, dies under suspicious circumstances, the parallels between the two deaths become impossible to ignore.
But can two deaths sixty years apart be linked and can Louisa find the poisoner before an innocent woman is convicted?
Excerpt
I said, in my defence, that James was losing his mind and Richard should not heed the ramblings of a daft old man.
Richard scraped the bread and butter from the floor and passed it to me. I gave it to the cat and it licked the butter with relish. Then I left the house and wandered the street of Stonham contemplating the missing poison.
I was out for several hours. When I returned James had eaten and was resting quietly. Sibella and her daughter slept and the room enjoyed a peaceful calm I hardly recognised. Even when John and William returned, peace reigned for a while. Then, in the dark of the night, James screamed as if a thousand devils were torturing his soul.
The screeches were as penetrating as the cry of an animal at abattoir and the whole house roused, beginning with the squalling baby.
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
A delightfully rare Historical Novel. 85% a biography of a spy, musician, mother and her neice trapped behind German lines in World War I. This background led to a diplomatic post in World War II. Aged 92, Vera disclosed her past life one year before
