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Female Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the great Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a story by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a guy three times her time with an bad reputation. Revolted by her new spouse, Female Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three employed assassins. Who is behind the agreement killing? Is it the Swedish Matter Coningsmark, young and glamorous with blond hair down to his waist? Or could it be a politics assassination as the anti-Catholic press maintains? Thynn was, after all, an integral player in the Protestant faction to exclude the Catholic Adam, Duke of York, as his sibling Charles II's successor. N.A. Pickford creates a world of stress and insecurity, of constant plotting and counter-plotting and of rabid anti-Catholicism, where large street demonstrations and open public Papal burnings are weekly occasions. The action moves from the fantastic landed estates of Syon and Petworth to the cheap taverns and brothels of London, and lastly to Newgate and the gallows - the sporting spectacle of the day. In the process, the book offers us a vibrant and deeply researched family portrait of Restoration society.

Category: Murder & Mayhem