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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Blood on the Bayou

    Bouchercon Anthology 2016

    by Greg Herren, David Morrell, Alison Gaylin, Elaine Viets, Kaye Wilkinson Barley, Eric Beetner, G. J. Brown, Sheila Connolly, O'Neil De Noux, Barbara Ferrer, John Floyd, BV Lawson, R. T. Lawton, Deborah Lacy, Edith Maxwell, Liz Milliron, Terrie Moran, Dino Parenti, Mike Penn, Gary Phillips, Thomas Pluck, Paula Pumphrey ...
    Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Anthology/CollectionBestselling novelists David Morrell, Alison Gaylin and Elaine Viets headline a new anthology of 22 tales exploring the unique aura of mystery of New Orleans and the surrounding bayou country.BLOOD ON THE BAYOU is published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, which is being held in New Orleans in 2016. As ... Read more

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  • Judge Thee Not

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    Series Book 5 - Quaker Midwife Mysteries
    “Elegant and well-crafted, rich in period detail, Edith Maxwell’s latest foray is a stunner!” —Susanna Calkins, author of the award-winning Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy MysteriesQuaker midwife Rose Carroll must fight bias and blind assumptions to clear the name of a friend when a murderer strikes in nineteenth-century Massachusetts . . .No stranger to judgmental attitudes in her small ... 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 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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  • Just Desserts for Johnny

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    In this short story, Yvonne Maupin is delighted when she meets a publisher interested in her literary novel, Souls by the Bay. When the deal goes sour, and she learns Johnny Sorbetto is a literary thief, she plots and carries out a satisfying revenge.Editor and author Chris Roerden said the story, "is a perfect short story, from the significant opening line to the end. Love it!"The story was ... Read more

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  • Yatsuhashi for Lance

    by Edith Maxwell ...
    In this short story Elise Chase, about to start a prestigious graduate program in Baltimore, is winding down a quiet life in Japan, teaching English and studying Japanese as she lives with her Navy boyfriend. Their rakish friend Lance flirts with Elise and then asks her to receive a package his sister mails from the States.But the package contains drugs and things go terribly wrong. An embittered ... 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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