Female Leads, History Follows: Ambrose Parry, Lesley McDowell,

Three tremendous writers; three forceful and fascinating female protagonists who changed the world around them; three riveting reads of historical crime fiction.
Would-be doctor Sarah Fisher uncovers the systematic and brutal exploitation of young women in Ambrose Parry’s harrowing new novel The Death of Shame. Lesley McDowell’s Love and Other Poisons is a beautifully crafted reimagining of the later life of Madeleine Smith, 50 years after her sensational murder trial acquittal. S.J. Parris unveils dazzling new heroine Sophia de Wolfe who investigates the murder of an heiress in Traitor’s Legacy, set late in the reign of Elizabeth 1.