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The Mourning Necklace
30 In Stock
9781035052059
They said I would swing for the crime, and I did...1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone.
Shame haunts them. Hanged for the murder of her newborn child, passers-by avert their eyes from her cheap coffin on its rickety cart. But as her family pray her soul rests in peace, a figure appears at the door.
It is Maggie. She is alive. Bruised and dazed, Maggie has little time for her family’s questions.
All that matters to her is answering this one: will they hang her twice?
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