Book
The Merchant’s Partner
First published 1995
During a severe winter, healer Agatha Kyteler is found murdered and mutilated in a hedge. Superstitious neighbours readily call her a witch, and suspicion falls on a young man who disappears when the hue and cry begins. Simon and Baldwin are unconvinced by a solution built from fear rather than evidence.
Their search exposes debts, sexual relationships and commercial rivalries within a small Devon community already strained by hunger and cold. The case tests the capacity of local justice to resist collective prejudice when almost every witness has a reason to misrepresent Agatha or the services she provided.
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