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The maiden / Kate Foster.
By: Foster, Kate.
Publisher: London : Pan Books, 2024Description: 304 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781529091748 (pbk.) :; 1529091748 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Historical | Historical | Central Scotland | 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 | True crime | Modern & contemporary fiction | Historical mysteries | Edinburgh (Scotland) -- History -- 17th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.Summary: Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo 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, Christian was 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.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Chester Lane Library Novels | Available | 38055400026717 |
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Originally published: London: Mantle, 2023.
Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo 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, Christian was 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.