From the Charred Remains: Lucy Campion Mysteries Series, Book 2
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It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much everyone else left standing, is doing her part to help the city clean up and recover. But their efforts come to a standstill when a couple of local boys stumble across a dead body that should have been burned up in the fire but miraculously remained intact—the body of a man who died not from the plague or the fire, but from the knife plunged into his chest.
Searching for a purpose now that there's no lady in the magistrate's household for her to wait on, Lucy has apprenticed herself to a printmaker. But she can't help but use her free time to help the local constable, and she quickly finds herself embroiled in the murder investigation. It will take all of her wits and charm, not to mention a strong stomach and a will of steel, if Lucy hopes to make it through alive herself, in From the Charred Remains by Susanna Calkins.
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Susanna Calkins. (2014). From the Charred Remains: Lucy Campion Mysteries Series, Book 2. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Susanna Calkins. 2014. From the Charred Remains: Lucy Campion Mysteries Series, Book 2. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Susanna Calkins, From the Charred Remains: Lucy Campion Mysteries Series, Book 2. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Susanna Calkins. From the Charred Remains: Lucy Campion Mysteries Series, Book 2. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.
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Rich historical detail compensates for the routine whodunit plot of Calkins’s sequel to 2013’s A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate. In the immediate aftermath of the Great Fire that devastated London in 1666, two boys playing amid the rubble find a wooden barrel containing a man’s corpse. Inside a leather pouch discovered next to the body are some coins and an unsigned love letter. Lucy Campion, a former lady’s maid who questions the boys, suspects that the missive may contain a code, and while she’s decided to start a new chapter in her professional life by becoming a printer’s apprentice, she finds herself again playing detective. With England at war with France and rampant allegations that the French were behind the conflagration, questions about its origin provide a nice counterpoint to the murder mystery. Calkins’s assured style will assuage those who may find the resolution unsatisfying. Agent: David Hale Smith, Inkwell Management.
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