A Death
Along the River Fleet
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . A Death Along the River Fleet (Lucy Campion Mysteries, #4) . . .
Cloak & Dagger. This fourth installment in the Lucy Campion Mysteries series has given me an appreciation of the Historical Mystery. I think that this was more due to the fact that the female lead was not what I was expecting.
Lucy and Constable Duncan make a good team with the investigation of this young woman and what had become of her. Calkins makes this journey to the truth on that will be felt with each new discovery. The momentum builds with small clues here and there. Almost like little bread crumbs being left for discovery. As clues to the young woman's past are uncovered there was a premise of intrigue.
I felt at peace by the last line of the last page. Calkins does not leave me with wanting to know how, when, where, why or any other of those questions that can sometime go un-answered. I was able to follow along in Lucy and Constable Duncan's logic, maybe not at the exact time it was happening but that was the intriguing part of it.
I enjoyed this page turner so much I am getting the remainder of the series from the library this weekend and will begin my little on mystery-read-a-thon on Lucy Campion.
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ARC was provided via Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours in exchange for an honest review.**
Lucy Campion Mysteries series:
A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate – Lucy Campion Mysteries,
#1
From the Charred Remains – Lucy Campion Mysteries,
#2
The Masque of a Murderer – Lucy Campion Mysteries,
#3
A Death Along the River Fleet – Lucy Campion Mysteries,
#4
BLURB
Lucy Campion, a ladies’ maid turned printer’s apprentice in
17th-century London, is crossing Holborn Bridge over the murky waters of the
River Fleet one morning when, out of the mist, she sees a specter moving toward
her. Frightened at first, Lucy soon realizes the otherworldly figure is in fact
a young woman, clearly distraught and clad only in a blood-spattered white
nightdress. Barely able to speak, the woman has no memory of who she is or
what’s happened to her. The townspeople believe she’s possessed. But Lucy is
concerned for the woman’s well-being and takes her to see a physician. When,
shockingly, the woman is identified as the daughter of a nobleman, Lucy is
asked to temporarily give up her bookselling duties to discreetly serve as the
woman’s companion while she remains under the physician’s care. As the woman
slowly recovers, she begins—with Lucy’s help—to reconstruct the terrible events
that led her to Holborn Bridge that morning. But when it becomes clear the
woman’s safety might still be at risk, Lucy becomes unwillingly privy to a plot
with far-reaching social implications, and she’ll have to decide just how far
she’s willing to go to protect the young woman in her care. Susanna Calkins has
drawn a richly detailed portrait of a time in history and a young woman
struggling against the bounds of her society in her next absorbing Lucy Campion
mystery.
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SUSANNA
CALKINS became fascinated with seventeenth-century England while pursuing her
doctorate in British history and uses her fiction to explore this chaotic
period. Originally from Philadelphia, Calkins now lives outside of Chicago with
her husband and two sons. A Death Along the River Fleet is her fourth novel.
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