The Merchant's Daughter

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Martin Lee is the author of contemporary and historical crime novels. The Merchant’s Daughter is the seventh book featuring genealogical investigator, Jayne Sinclair.

The Jayne Sinclair Series

The Irish Inheritance

The Somme Legacy

The American Candidate

The Vanished Child

The Lost Christmas

The Sinclair Betrayal

The Inspector Danilov Series

Death in Shanghai

City of Shadows

The Murder Game

The Killing Time

The Inspector Thomas Ridpath thrillers

Where the Truth Lies

Where the Dead Fall

Where the Silence Calls

Other Fiction

Samuel Pepys and the Stolen Diary

The Fall

Chapter ONE

July 05, 1842

Wickham Hall, Cheshire

Last night, Emily Roylance dreamt she was in Barbados again. The waving palms, the songs of the slaves as they cut the sugar cane, the breeze fresh off the ocean, the tang of the sea floating in the air. It was as if she was there, back on the estate, sleeping in the arms of her nanny.

And then she woke up.

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