By Mary Lawrence
“A practical evocation of sixteenth century London’s underside. a number of the strands of the plot are so skillfully plaited together.” —Fiona Buckley
In the yr 1543 of King Henry VIII’s turbulent reign, the daughter of a infamous alchemist unearths herself suspected of cold-blooded murder…
Bianca Goddard employs her wisdom of herbs and medicinal vegetation to concoct treatments for the disease-riddled terrible in London’s squalid Southwark slum. but if her buddy Jolyn involves her complaining of serious belly pains, Bianca’s prescription turns out to kill her immediate. recuperating from her surprise, Bianca suspects Jolyn could have been poisoned before coming to her—but the neighborhood constable isn't really so simply convinced.
To transparent her identify and continue her neck freed from the gallows, Bianca needs to practice her wisdom of the therapeutic arts to infer precisely how her good friend used to be murdered and by way of whom—before she herself falls sufferer to an analogous fate…
“Unique characters, a twisty plot and a daring, shiny heroine upload as much as a superb debut for Mary Lawrence’s The Alchemist’s Daughter. secret and Tudor lovers alike will elevate a tumbler to this new series.”
—Karen Harper, writer of The Poyson Garden
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