Face Down Among the Winchester Geese

Newly transplanted from the English countryside to a splendid London townhouse, Susanna, Lady Appleton, tracks an elusive St. Mark's Day serial killer along a path that leads perilously close to home...

A dedicated herbalist, Susanna is caught up in visions of blooming borage and lavender on a sun-splashed June morning until a striking woman draped in mourning black appears bearing a cryptic message for Sir Robert Appleton. Hours later, the stranger is found murdered amidst the beggars and prostitutes of nearby Southwark with a single goosefeather--the killer's curious calling card--lying beside her corpse. As Susanna's investigation takes her from seedy tenements and brothels to the glorious scented gardens of Whitehall Palace, she discovers a trail of victims slain in a similar fashion and a shocking list of possible culprits that leaves few above suspicion--least of all, her own husband...