Description
In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me."
Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. Whore. Murderess.
Only a year before, Lady Christian was newly married, leading a life of privilege and respectability. So, what led her to risk everything for an affair? And does that make her guilty of murder? She wasn't the only woman in Forrester's life, and certainly not the only one who might have had cause to wish him dead . . .
Review
Absolutely fantastic!
I literally could not put this book down and spent every spare minute I had over 48 hours reading it!
With a dual perspective and time shifts, I was waiting to get confused but I needn't have feared, it works so, so, well. I was gripped by the suspense, drawn to both Lady Christian and Violet's plights, and tense with anticipation right to the last page.
One of my top reads this year!
