The Cry of the Hangman

Murder always sells. But when a series of dark and puzzling crimes takes place in seventeenth—century London, will printer's apprentice Lucy Campion be publishing the news — or starring in it?

London, 1667. Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is unsettled when, on a frozen December morning after church, an elderly woman dressed in mourning clothes whispers an ominous warning in her ear.

Lucy sternly tells herself it's nonsense, but then her much—loved former master, Magistrate Hargrave, is vici...