If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

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Revolving around two career criminals and a Thameside mansion, The Burial Plot is a gripping historical thriller about murder ...