Lady of the Quay by Amanda Roberts

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The Details:

Book Title: Lady of the Quay

Series: Isabella Gillhespy Series, Book #1

Author: Amanda Roberts

Publication Date: May 9th, 2025

Publisher: Hickory Press

Pages: 256

Genre: Historical Mystery / Suspense

 

 

 

 

Blurb:

 

Knowing she is innocent is easy … proving it is hard

 

1560, Berwick-upon-Tweed, northern England

 

Following the unexpected death of her father, a series of startling discoveries about the business she inherits forces Isabella Gillhespy to re-evaluate everything she understands about her past and expects from her future.

Facing financial ruin, let down by people on whom she thought she could rely, and suspected of crimes that threaten her freedom, Isabella struggles to prove her innocence.

But the stakes are even higher than she realises. In a town where tension between England and her Scottish neighbours is never far from the surface, it isn’t long before developments attract the interest of the highest authority in the land, Sir William Cecil, and soon Isabella is fighting, not just for her freedom, but her life. She must use her wits and trust her own instincts to survive.

Lady of the Quay introduces an enticing new heroine who refuses to be beaten, even as it becomes clear that her life will never be the same again.

 

From the author of the award-winning ‘The Woman in the Painting’.

  

Buy Link:

Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/317rQa

 This title is available to read on #KindleUnlimited.

 

 

Author Bio:

 

Amanda Roberts has worked as an Editor in business-to-business magazines for over 30 years, specialising in out-of-home coffee, vending and foodservice/catering, including Editor of the global gastronomy title: ‘Revue internationale de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs’. 

She currently freelances, editing UK-based healthcare titles – HEFMA Pulse, Hospital Food + Service and Hospital Caterer. She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Historical Novel Society and West Oxfordshire Writers. She also volunteers for Tea Books (part of Age UK) to run a book club/reading group for elderly people in the community.

 

 

Snippet:

Eating alone at the vast table, which could seat a dozen people with ease, did nothing to improve my attitude, or my mood, and I vowed that unless I was entertaining I would take my meals in my closet from now on. Yes, I had to try to think of it as my closet now. I retired there after I had eaten, and although I relished the silence, I was not yet comfortable with the void that my father’s absence left in the space. With the shutters closed to deny the outside world, I settled by the fire and tried to cocoon myself in memories of him, but I could no longer trust my own mind. To keep secrets had not been in his nature, and yet that is what he had done. And these were not just any old secrets; they were big, black, ugly ones. How was I supposed to reconcile the man I thought I had known so well with the person I was now discovering? He had been the pivot of my existence for most of my life, my moral and spiritual guide and a person respected by all who knew him, but who was he really?

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