Dead Man's Lane by Kate Ellis

Author:Kate Ellis [Ellis, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780349418278
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2019-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

From the first diary of

Lemuel Strange, gentleman

7th September 1666

I will never forget what I saw that night: the putrefying bodies of the young man and maid hacked with knives and axes and the stench of their torn-out hearts burning on the fire the men had lit nearby. Once the heads had been removed they were placed between the corpses’ legs with little ceremony and great stones found to lay upon the bodies.

‘They will not return to torment us now,’ Frances said as we walked back to the hall. I saw a look of triumph on her face. Her husband’s murderers had faced justice. And yet I was uneasy.

‘Where have they hidden the treasure they took?’ I asked.

‘John will continue to search tomorrow,’ she replied.

When I retired to my bed I could not sleep. How I wish my wife had resolved to stay with her father in Islington so she could attend to my affairs and see what can be salvaged from the fire, but she will arrive soon and I am loath to tell her of the dreadful things I have witnessed in this place.

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