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Book Title: Lady of the Quay
Series: Isabella Gillhespy Series, Book #1
Author: Amanda Roberts
Publication Date: May 9th, 2025
Publisher: Hickory Press
Pages: 256
Genre: Historical Mystery / Suspense
Knowing she is innocent is easy … proving it is hard
1560, Berwick-upon-Tweed, northern England
Following the unexpected death of her father, a series of startling discoveries about the business she inherits forces Isabella Gillhespy to re-evaluate everything she understands about her past and expects from her future.
Facing financial ruin, let down by people on whom she thought she could rely, and suspected of crimes that threaten her freedom, Isabella struggles to prove her innocence.
But the stakes are even higher than she realises. In a town where tension between England and her Scottish neighbours is never far from the surface, it isn’t long before developments attract the interest of the highest authority in the land, Sir William Cecil, and soon Isabella is fighting, not just for her freedom, but her life. She must use her wits and trust her own instincts to survive.
Lady of the Quay introduces an enticing new heroine who refuses to be beaten, even as it becomes clear that her life will never be the same again.
From the author of the award-winning ‘The Woman in the Painting’.
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Author Bio:
Amanda Roberts has worked as an Editor in business-to-business magazines for over 30 years, specialising in out-of-home coffee, vending and foodservice/catering, including Editor of the global gastronomy title: ‘Revue internationale de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs’.
She currently freelances, editing UK-based healthcare titles – HEFMA Pulse, Hospital Food + Service and Hospital Caterer. She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Historical Novel Society and West Oxfordshire Writers. She also volunteers for Tea Books (part of Age UK) to run a book club/reading group for elderly people in the community.
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Lady of the Quay
I watched him saunter away, willing him to slip on the icy ground in his fashionable boots, but he was careful, or maybe lucky, and his feet remained in contact with the rough path. I could think of no polite response to his parting jibe. Instead, I bent down and scooped up a handful of snow, which I rolled into a hard ball in my gloved hands and threw, aiming at his retreating back. It landed a little short and shattered into compacted fragments that skittered and bounced after him, as if they were in pursuit. I thought I heard him laugh as he vanished from my sight, swallowed up into the gloom of the town walls on his way back to the quay.
What had I done to deserve Richard Elliott in my life? What crime had I committed? I had been composed, my thoughts focused in preparation for my meeting with Mr Young, infused with energy and optimism by my visit to the quay. Now I was unsettled, my mind unfocused and flitting away at tangents, and my skin itched with the unpleasant sensation that an army of ants, or a battalion of spiders, were crawling beneath it.
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