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When Hannah Breed confides to midwife Rose Carroll that she’s pregnant out of wedlock, Rose promises to help her through the pregnancy and figure out a way to break the news to her family. But that night, amid the noise and revelry of the Independence Day fireworks, Hannah is found shot dead.
After a former slave and fellow Quaker is accused of the murder, Rose delves into the crime, convinced of the man’s innocence. An ill-mannered mill manager, an Irish immigrant, and the victim’s young boyfriend come under suspicion even as Rose’s future with her handsome doctor suitor becomes unsure. Rose continues to deliver babies and listen to secrets, finally focusing in on the culprit only to be threatened herself.
National
best-selling author Edith Maxwell is a 2017 double Agatha Award nominee for her
historical mystery Delivering the Truth and her short story, “The Mayor and the
Midwife.” She writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries and the Local Foods Mysteries;
as Maddie Day she writes the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book
Group Mysteries. Her award-winning short crime fiction has appeared in many
juried anthologies, and she is honored to served as President of Sisters in
Crime New England.
A
fourth-generation Californian and former tech writer, farmer, and doula, Maxwell
now writes, cooks, gardens, and wastes time as a Facebook addict north of Boston
with her beau and three cats. She blogs at WickedCozyAuthors.com, Killer
Characters, and with the Midnight Ink authors. Find her at www.edithmaxwell.com and
elsewhere.
