The Midwife's Tale (Midwife's Tale Series #1)

First in a thrilling and atmospheric mystery series set in seventeenth-century England featuring a midwife turned sleuth.

It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is inno...