The Mourning Necklace

The Maiden is a masterpiece. A thrilling historical murder tale but so much more. Vivid, evocative and full of humanityJanice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal, on The Maiden

Riveting . . . The tension persists until the last pageThe Times on The Maiden

Kate Foster expands the slender facts of the case into something exceptional - a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant - Daily Mail on The Maiden

Threat hangs over every page like the awaiting guillotine, but the women in this book gleam sharper. Witty, gritty and full of heart, their voices rise through the brutality and hardship of seventeenth-century Edinburgh, battling to be heardCari Thomas, bestselling author of Threadneedle