Come the Fear

With the discovery of a young woman's charred and blackened body, Richard Nottingham tackles his most disturbing case yetMarch, 1733. Fire rages through an empty house in a rundown area of Leeds, but the investigation takes a disturbing turn with the discovery of the charred remains of a young woman and her baby amidst the smouldering ruins. Was the fire deliberately started to conceal the woman's murder?Richard Nottingham's enquiries into the victim's identity will lead him from...
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With the discovery of a young woman's charred and blackened body, Richard Nottingham tackles his most disturbing case yetMarch, 1733. Fire rages through an empty house in a rundown area of Leeds, but the investigation takes a disturbing turn with the discovery of the charred remains of a young woman and her baby amidst the smouldering ruins. Was the fire deliberately started to conceal the woman's murder?Richard Nottingham's enquiries into the victim's identity will lead him from squalid alehouses, prostitutes' haunts and thieves' dens to the home of a wealthy wool merchant.