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Annie Young-Perret goes undercover at the Edinburgh, Scotland office of a multi-national insurance company to investigate the suspicious hit-and-run death of her school friend Chantal's husband, Duncan. Meantime, other company employees are murdered in Boston, Colorado Springs and Saint Petersburg, Russia by a serial killer who delights in finding original ways to kill her victims. Joining the search are Annie's retired French police chief husband, Roger; a writer from the new Early Scottish Poets Museum for which Chantal is curator; a coworker of Duncan's; and two off-duty Edinburgh police. When the insurance company CEO learns of their inquiries, he orders a contract on a new target.

Every family is made up of multiple separate lives, intertwined. And though they experience the same event, and the impact shared, each of their reactions is deeply personal. The Flanagans are a normal, three-generation Boston Irish Catholic family living in a triple decker on Mission Hill. The matriarch and patriarch live in the top-floor apartment, and their two daughters and their families each in one of the other flats. Their problems are those that every family faces, until war changes everything they thought they knew and believed.

James Holloway has just lost his wife and daughter. His older brother won't let him try any new ideas at the bakery which has been in his family for generations in Ely, England. When he runs into recruiters for the 43rd Regiment of Foot, he decides to sign up, never realizing it will take him to Boston on the eve of the American Revolution. He is assigned as an orderly to Governor Gage where he gets a first-hand view of all sides of the unrest.Newlywed and historian Daphne Andrews is married to the newly appointed Consul General in the British Consulate in Boston. She quickly wishes she hadn't married without knowing more about her husband. Only after she joins up with the wife of the French Consul General and they decide to create a comic book about the American Revolution does she begin to recapture her own sense of identity.What about the story behind the story? How did D-L Nelson make certain decisions on what to write? Notes on the creation of LEXINGTON: Anatomy of a Novel add a different dimension to this unique work of historical fiction.