Books Details
Author : Sara Collins Pages : 384 pages Publisher : Harper
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 39937621-the-confessions-of-frannie-
langton ISBN-13 : 9780062851819
Books Descriptions
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--a 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.But
Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful
evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn?t
know how she came to be covered in the victims? blood. But she
does have a tale to tell: a
