Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

When the steward at her husband's Lancashire estate dies under mysteriouscircumstances, Susanna, Lady Appleton suspects he was murdered. As anexpert on poisonous herbs, she sets out to discover the truth but endsup unearthing more secrets than she bargained for. This first book in the FACE DOWN mystery series, set in sixteenth-century England, is "a breezy and amusing historical whodunit." (Booklist)