From the Charred Remains

Title: From the Charred Remains

Author: Susanna Calkins

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Series: Lucy Campion, Bk 2

ISBN: 9781250007889

Length: 340 + Histoical Note (343)

Obtained: Library copy

Comments:

I started this immediately after finishing the first book in the series, A Murder at Rosamund's Gate for the second time.

Lucy is leaving her former master's home to make way for herself as a printer's apprentice.  She hopes to both make better future for herself and possibly to clear the way for her to have a relationship with her now former master's son, Adam.  But Adam is distant and Lucy has discovered (in a way) another mystery in the aftermath of the great London Fire.  The charred remains of a foreigner hidden in a barrel and with naught but what are apparently the winnings from a card game, including a coded love letter.

I'll be reading more of this series soon, I hope.  I own an autographed copy of the third book, The Masque of a Murder, from when I met the author a few years back.