
When the steward at her husband's Lancashire estate dies under mysterious circumstances, Susanna, Lady Appleton suspects he was murdered. As an expert on poisonous herbs, she sets out to discover the truth but ends up unearthing more secrets than she bargained for. [1st in the Face Down series]
This first book in the FACE DOWN mystery series, set in sixteenth-century England, is "a breezy and amusing historical whodunit." (Booklist)
"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.
± 66,000 words