Easy quick book featuring a young woman who has learned the art of herbs and healing in ireland. When a child in her care dies she is tried for murder. Acquitted, she flees Ireland to escape the gossip and taunting. In England her upper crust cousins help her find a place with a young widowed doc...
Why could she not remember which place was Emma’s? Anne scanned the road. To her left stood a row of two-story houses, the shadows descending to fill the nooks and crannies between them with ebony. Above and to her right was an uneven line of backyards, empty clotheslines and rickety porch balcon...
The widow who owned the boardinghouse where Ahearn lived—a Mrs. Barnes—stared at Nick. “He lives here all right. With his mother and frail sister. In a set of rooms on the third floor.” “Is he there now, Mrs. Barnes?” Nick asked. “I need to speak with him.” “It’s Sunday, Detective. He’s at that r...