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<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can Samuel Pepys save his sister from the hangman's noose?</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>September 1666. As the Great Fire devours London fear grips the quiet village of Brampton where Paulina Pepys the diarist's sister stands accused of witchcraft.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In desperation Pepys dispatches his sharp-witted housemaid and earnest but awkward protégé - Abigail Harcourt and Jacob Standish - to act as his personal inquisitors.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But are they up to the task?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Brampton is steeped in superstition and villagers are dying - each marked by a straw poppet left on the doorstep.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Abigail and Jacob struggle Simon Hopkins - son of the infamous Witchfinder General - rides in burning with zeal and eager to condemn.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can Pepys's fledgling inquisitors clear Paulina's name before Hopkins forces her confession?</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Brampton Witch Murders launches the Samuel Pepys Mysteries a historical mystery series steeped in period detail and brimming with fiendish whodunits. Step into Pepys's London - once you do you won't want to leave.</span></p>