The Two Deaths of Lilian Carmichael

The Two Deaths of Lilian Carmichael

Author: Paulette Kennedy Listening Length: 8h 19m
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A young woman, perceived dead, plots to reinvent herself in a gripping historical gothic about secrets, superstition, and murder by the bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport. South Carolina, 1853. Lillian Carmichael, privileged daughter of a disgraced Charleston family, is due to be hanged for the murder o...

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Twenty-One

In the days that follow, Kate works me to exhaustion with rehearsals.

She chooses a scarlet gown for me out of Lucrezia’s wardrobe and alters it with a clever pocket above my left breast, where we’ll hide a sheep’s bladder filled with blood on the night of our performance.

An actor’s trick, she says, to make my “murder” look more convincing.