Death of an Alchemist by Mary LawrenceMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
4.5 stars. Bianca and John are back in the second book of Mary Lawrence’s series. If you haven’t read the first book, The Alchemist’s Daughter, I strongly encourage you to do so, but Death of an Alchemist, can stand on it’s own. The stories are set in the 1600’s of Tudor England. Of course they don’t have dna testing, or and FBI data base, so solving the whodunit is totally different then what is done today. However mysteries do get solved.
The author transports you back in time to where you can see a good image of what the village looks like, the smells, and the sounds. The mystery is not over shadow by the descriptions the author brings to life.
Bianca Goddard is an alchemist, one who heals for medicinal, this in itself can be challenging due to the lack of medicine. People died from what is today known as the common flu. But this time she is trying to create a medicine for “the sweating sickness”. With no luck, Bianca seeks out to find Ferris Stannum, a much better alchemist than herself, who has announced a new discovery of and immortal elixir. The next day he is found dead, and the corner states the cause of death is “natural”, and his journal book comes up missing. Bianca has second thoughts and sets out to prove and solve who it is that killed Ferris Stannun.
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