Come Away, Death: A Novel [Paperback]

TILL DEATH DO THEM PART . . .



Doran Fairweather and her husband, ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, are both secretly relieved when she decides to sublet a friend's London apartment for a while. Maybe the separation will put the spice back into their relationship.



But the flat is depressing, her maid is strangely intimidating, and the flat's owner is horribly murdered beside the Thames. Then, in a pre-Tudor house with a curse upon it--owned by a wonderful man who might have stepped out of Shakespeare--Doran discovers another world. There, an unbroken connection with the past is so compelling that an oath of revenge sworn when Richard III ruled England still exerts its evil power . . . even over Doran's innocent loved ones deep in the peaceful English countryside.Mollie Hardwick is the author of the Doran Fairweather series: Malice Domestic, Parsons Pleasure, Uneaseful Death, The Bandersnatch, Perish in July, and The Dreaming Damozel. She is also well known as the author of historical novels, especially Upstairs, Downstairs, which was made into a very popular BBC television series. She lives in London, England.Chapter 1
 
“You are showing signs of wear,” Doran said. “You could do with a complete overhaul—possibly cosmetic surgery. I’m totally bored with you.”
 
She ran a trickle of tepid water from the tap over the Chelsea-Derby figurine she was washing in the sink, from its delicate head coroneted with braids and tiny flowers to its sandaled feet, then lowered it to the padded mat beneath. It simpered at her, as did the lamb lying in its porcelain arms, as though grateful for this attention.
 
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