Delivering the Truth

by Edith Maxwell

Overview

For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in 1888 Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders leave her fearing for the well-being of her loved ones.

Driven by her desire for safety and justice, Rose Carroll begins asking questions related to the crimes. Consulting with her friends and neighbors―including the famous Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier―Rose draws on her strengths as a counselor and problem solver in trying to bring the perpetrators to light.

The book won the IPPY Silver Medal for mystery, was nominated for both a Macavity and an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel, and was named Amesbury, MA’s 2016 All-Community Read.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164803650
Publisher:	Edith Maxwell
Publication date:	01/28/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	544 KB

About the Author

Agatha Award winning author Edith Maxwell writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries and award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she pens the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. Maxwell lives with her beau north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. She blogs at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen twice a month and every weekday with the other Wicked Authors (wickedauthors.com). She hopes you’ll find her at www.edithmaxwell.com and on social media under both names.

Editorial Reviews

2016-01-20
A 19th-century Quaker midwife discovers unexpected sleuthing talents. Rose Carroll lives with her widowed brother-in-law and his family in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Her beau, Dr. David Dodge, occasionally aids her in such difficult cases as that of Minnie O'Toole, an unmarried woman who refuses to name her child's father. Another hard case is that of Lillian Parry, the spoiled, discontented, and much younger wife of wealthy carriage-factory owner William Parry, who's neglecting her for a mistress. Rose's peaceful life ends when arson destroys several of Amesbury's carriage factories, kills several men trapped inside, and throws a large portion of town out of work. Detective Kevin Donovan asks Rose to keep her eyes open for clues to the arsonist as she travels around town but sternly warns her not to become too involved. But when William Parry's son Thomas is stabbed and Rose's hand-painted knitting needle is identified as the murder weapon, she refuses to heed Donovan's warning and begins sleuthing in earnest. Among the people who give her sage advice is celebrated poet John Greenleaf Whittier, a fellow member of the Society of Friends. Rose's own abilities and a bit of bad luck eventually bring her face to face with a killer. In a departure from her organic farming cozies, Maxwell (Farmed and Dangerous, 2015, etc.) goes back to 1888 to launch a new series combining a highly competent mystery with the requisite period detail.

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