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A Gothic tale inspired by the real-life Lysbeth Anthonijsen. The year is 1676. We meet Lysbeth Luanda, a second-generation African freedwoman in New York, the former Dutch colony seized by the English, who, in a mere decade, have passed more cruel and oppressive restrictions on the free African community already living in the colony. After being orphaned at age 13, Lysbeth is forced to restart life all on her own, while working as a tavern waitress in Dutch and German-owned taverns along the banks of the Delaware and Hudson rivers. In this multinational milieu, she learns cosmopolitan skills and street philosophy from lovable lowlifes, brash buccaneers, African dreamers, indigenous heroines, and globetrotting Scandinavians. Lysbeth eventually finds a mentor in a Sephardi Jewish medical doctor from Curaçao, under whom she studies surgery and anatomy. As the gloomy autumn season begins in 1676, the gruesome murders of 3 European women, by an unknown assailant in the isolated village of Sleepy Hollow, shocks the whole of New York. Lysbeth's mentor convinces the New York High Sheriff to appoint Lysbeth to go investigate the victims’ inexplicable cause of death and bring back a written coroner's report. After an initial frosty reception by the villagers of Sleepy Hollow, Lysbeth gains new allies who assist her in her investigation. She must now work quickly to map the murderous pattern of the Sleepy Hollow serial killer before it’s too late...
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- Author : Rama Santa Mansa
- Release : 29 March 2024
- Publisher : Lingeer Press
- ISBN : 978186723xxxx
- Genre : Fiction
- Total Page : 135 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 15,7 Mb
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