Face down among the Winchester Geese : An Elizabethan Mystery Featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton

by Kathy Lynn Emerson

• ISBN13: 9780312205423
• ISBN10: 0312205422
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-06-12
• Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur

Summary

She heard him come up behind her, expected him to turn her in his arms and embrace her with a lover's enthusiasm. Instead, his forearm abruptly cut off her supply of air as it pressed into her throat. A harsh whisper, close to her ear, was the last thing she heard before one abrupt movement snapped her neck. "Whore," her murderer said. "No better than a Winchester goose." It is the spring of 1563, and Susanna, Lady Appleton, wants only to tend to the medicinal herbs in the garden of her London townhouse. But the appearance of a mysterious veiled woman disrupts her plans. Is the woman just another mistress of Robert's, her forever-philandering husband? When the gentlewoman is found dead with a snapped neck in London's notorious brothel district, and her last known visitor was Robert, Lady Appleton is forced to investigate. As she delves deeper into the mystery, she uncovers a string of murders from years dark-haired of dark-ahaired women, all occurring on St. Mark's Day, and, most perplexing, all with a goose feather left by the bodies. For Susanna, nobody, not even her own husband, is above suspicion. Kathy Lynn Emerson's third mystery in the Lady Appleton series once again will delight "readers who appreciate suspenseful historical mysteries with a feminist slant" (Booklist).

Author Biography

Kathy Lynn Emerson lives in Wilton, Maine. She has written many novels, including romantic suspense and children's mysteries. Face Down Among the Winchester Geese is the third book in the Susanna, Lady Appleton, series.

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"Lady Susanna Appleton makes for a fresh new face in female sleuths." --Maine Sunday Telegram

"The story is wonderfully enhanced by herbal lore (decoctions, potions, and balms) and a heated forbidden romance...There is always someone lurking behind an arras or scuttling along a secret passage." --Publishers Weekly on Face Down Upon An Herbal

"The mystery world has gained a fantastic new historical cozy writer in Kathy Lynn Emerson as she makes the early stages of the reign of Elizabeth I come gloriously to life." --The Midwest Book Review on Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie