
Susanna, Lady Appleton is an expert on poisonous herbs, but she never expects to diagnose her own husband's death as murder. Sir Robert, long believed lost at sea, turns up freshly dead in Westminster and Susanna is accused of the crime. To prove her innocence she must discover the real killer's identify.
Elizabethan mystery by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books and Kensington.
"Lady Susanna Appleton...is a marvelous creation, as tart, tangy, and tough as her sixteenth-century milieu." -- Carolyn G. Hart
Kathy Lynn Emerson is the author of fourteen romance and romantic suspense novels (some historical, some contemporary, and two paranormal). She is currently writing the Face Down Mystery Series featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman Susanna, Lady Appleton, and a new series set in 1888 New York featuring journalist Diana Spaulding.
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