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The confessions of Frannie Langton, a novel, Sara Collins

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The confessions of Frannie Langton, a novel, Sara Collins

Language

eng

Main title

The confessions of Frannie Langton

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Sara Collins

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London- remarkable literary debut with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests. All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore

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