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  • Delivering the Truth

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Speaking of Murder

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    Series Book 1 - A Lauren Rousseau Mystery
    In this suspenseful mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a startling murder exposes dark dealings in a quiet New England town . . .When a talented student asks her to endorse his controversial thesis on race and language, linguistics professor Lauren Rousseau cautiously agrees to take up the cause—so long as no one at their small New England college finds out about the romantic ... Read more

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  • Called to Justice

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Stonecutter

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    "The Stonecutter," a short story of middle-aged love gone terribly wrong, depicts librarian Eleanor and Portuguese stonecutter Fernando Andrade in an increasingly dark New England fall. ... Read more

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  • Murder on the Bluffs

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    Series Book 2 - A Lauren Rousseau Mystery
    In the second Lauren Rousseau Mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a grisly murder stirs up long-buried secrets surrounding the disappearance and death of Lauren’s father . . .As a bitter controversy rages over a secretive local land trust in her small New England town, linguistics professor Lauren Rousseau is not wholly surprised when she stumbles upon the dead body of one of the ... Read more

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  • Turning the Tide

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    Excitement runs high during presidential election week in 1888. The Woman Suffrage Association plans a demonstration and movement leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton comes to town to rally the troops, one of whom is Quaker midwife Rose Carroll. But the next morning, Rose finds the dead body of the group's local organizer.Rose can't help wanting to know who committed the murder, and she quickly discovers ... Read more

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  • Charity's Burden

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity Skells dies from an apparent early miscarriage, Rose wonders about the symptoms that don't match the stated cause of death. She learns that Charity's husband may be up to no good with a young woman whose mother appears ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #139

    This issue, we have a pair of original stories: Stephen D. Rogers’ “Sonnenblumenkried” (which translates as Sunflower War, for those not fluent in German), courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and a new Velda story by Ron Miller. Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman snagged a great Edith Maxwell tale, plus we have The Disappearance of Anne Shaw, by Augusta Huiell Seaman as our mystery novel. And ... Read more

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  • Reduction in Force

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    In this short story, software engineer Jackie Rousseau loses her job to outsourcing, as do several others in her group. Their manager doesn't seem to care. Jackie manages to stay afloat financially but she sees the damage the reduction in force wreaks on her friends' lives. Art needs to support a family and an ill wife. Raymond seems to be coping and then goes off the deep end. Jackie, a gardener ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Blood

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    Jody and Katie. Identical twins but so different. They share the same blood, the same DNA, but not the same fingerprints, ambition, or attachment to family. Which turns out to be lethal in the end. In this short story, Katie's devotion to family along with her addiction issues prove to be an even worse problem for her sister. ... Read more

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  • An Idea for Murder

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    No story, no paycheck. In this short story, crime fiction writer Dorothy finally hits on an idea for murder for her next story, which turns out to be fatal in real life, too.The story originally appeared under the pen name Tace Baker in Burning Bridges: A Renegade Fiction Anthology. ... Read more

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  • A Changing Light

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    Series Book 7 - Quaker Midwife Mysteries
    In a new mystery from Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, midwife Rose Carroll confronts a killer on the cusp of a new age . . .As the nineteenth century nears an end, midwife Rose Carroll can see signs of progress and change everywhere in her Amesbury community. Adding to the excitement is the annual Spring Opening, when the town’s world-famous carriage manufacturers throw open their doors ... Read more

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