By Paul Carrier
As a young woman in 16th-century England whose “medicinals and physickes” help the ailing, Bianca Goddard has no interest in becoming an alchemist. But when Goddard consults famed London alchemist Ferris Stannum to learn how his equipment and processes might help her produce healing potions and remedies, he confides that he has developed an elixir that assures immortality.
Stannum spells out the details in a journal, but he is murdered after his encounter with Goddard, and the journal disappears. As more deaths follow, Goddard tries to solve the killings and learn Stannum’s secrets in a race against time; her husband has become gravely ill with the sweating sickness and she is desperate to save him.
Death of an Alchemist is the second novel in Mary Lawrence’s Bianca Goddard mystery series.
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