In the English village of Kurland St. Mary, few things
are worse than having one’s reputation besmirched. A
struggling marriage is one. Murder is another . . .
Three years have passed since Major Sir Robert Kurland and
Lucy Harrington, the rector's daughter, became husband and
wife. Having established a measure of contentment among the
gentry of Kurland St. Mary, the couple lately have found an
unsettling distance grown between them. But when the
small-village peace is disrupted by the arrival of an
anonymous letter accusing Lucy of witchcraft, her as yet
unfulfilled desire to be a mother becomes the least of her
worries, especially after she learns she is not the only one
to have received such a malicious letter.
Speculation in the village only escalates when the local
schoolteacher, Miss Broomfield, is discovered murdered at
her classroom desk. Was the unlikeable teacher the letter
writer, and if so, who killed her and why? Despite her
husband’s objections, Lucy offers to help out at the school
until a replacement can be found, hoping the schoolchildren
might inadvertently reveal a clue, but by doing so she may
be putting her own life at risk . . .
Lucy offers to teach in the school until a replacement can
be found, hoping the schoolchildren might inadvertently
reveal a clue, but by doing so she may be putting her own
life at risk . . .
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