Four titles in Deryn Lake's John Rawlings historical mystery series are US Kindle Countdown deals, at $0.99 for about six more days. I had already picked up three of the four on sale/free before, but the fourth one was new on sale - to me, at least. Please note that Endeavour Press has been known to upload more than one version of a title, so check carefully before you buy.
Death in the Valley of Shadows, #9
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016N23B90
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Eighteenth-century Georgian England.
The apothecary John Rawlings is working in his Piccadilly shop when a panic-stricken man rushes in seeking a place to hide.
John agrees to conceal the man from whoever is pursuing him and, soon after, an angry woman arrives demanding if the Apothecary has seen him.
John covers for the terrified man and sends the formidable woman on her way.
The stranger is Aidan Fenchurch, importer of fine wines, and the rude woman is Ariadne Bussell, his married ex-mistress.
Aidan reveals to John that he ended his affair with Mrs Bussell after he met a widow called Mrs Trewellan whom he had intended to marry.
But Ariadne is reluctant to give up the chase. So reluctant, in fact, that she has been shadowing the poor man for years.
Aidan thinks that Ariadne wants him dead. Believing he is soon to be killed, he asks the Apothecary to be custodian of some sealed documents which detail Mrs Bussell’s obsession with him.
That evening, Aidan is bludgeoned to death outside his home in Bloomsbury Square.
He leaves behind three daughters: Evalina, who is in hysterics over her father’s death; the recently widowed Jocasta; and Louisa, who has eloped with a soldier.
Also in mourning is the sisters’ unmarried cousin Millicent, a sad figure whom their father had taken under his wing.
The Apothecary seeks out the famous magistrate Sir John Fielding — known as the Blind Beak.
Aidan’s damning documents against Mrs Bussell suggest that she was behind his death.
But the killing appears to have been the work of two men.
Could Aidan’s killers have been assassins hired by Mrs Bussell?
Knowing that he is neglecting his heavily-pregnant wife, John searches for answers by embarking on a journey to the Surrey countryside, where the Bussells have another home.
Here John finds familiar faces from the past waiting to greet him ...
Mrs Bussell is arrested for Aidan’s murder and it looks as if the case is closed — until she takes ill and dies, seemingly from poisoning. Shortly after her husband dies. Is another member of the Bussell family behind the growing death toll?
John must find out before the poisoner strikes again…
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