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In the traditions of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's Tale. It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have increased against the King and laid siege to metropolis of York. Even as metropolis suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her partner and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget packages out to find the real killer. Bridget joins causes with Martha Hawkins, a servant who's a lot more skilled with a blade than any respectable woman should be. To save Esther from the stake, they need to dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous physique from Martha's past, and catch a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his paths. The investigation requires Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city's most effective families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther's murdered partner, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and this much too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.
