In Charity’s Burden, the fourth mystery in Edith Maxwell’s Quaker Midwife Mystery series, Rose Carroll seeks the true cause of a young mother’s death in turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. The fourth Quaker Midwife mystery finds our heroine, Rose Carroll, hard at work tending to the pregnant and postpartum mothers of Amesbury, Massachusetts during the harsh winter of…
Edith Maxwell is the author of the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Food Mysteries, and award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day, she writes the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries—the first of which, Murder on Cape Cod, recently reached #1 on Barnes & Noble’s mass market paperback bestsellers list. Maxwell…
Edith Maxwell, author of Charity’s Burden, discusses Massachusetts police procedures she learned while performing research to write the Quaker Midwife Mystery series. My Quaker Midwife Mysteries series begins in 1888 and is set in Amesbury, Massachusetts, in a then-thriving textile mill and carriage factory town in the northeast corner of the state. Midwife Rose Carroll…
Called to Justice by Edith Maxwell is the second book in the Quaker Midwife Mystery series. Meet Rose Carroll, the 19th-century Quaker midwife who is one of my favorite creations in all of recent fiction. Though still quite young, she is the only practicing midwife in the Massachusetts town of Amesbury, home of the renowned…
Delivering the Truth by Edith Maxwell is the 1st book in the Quaker Midwife Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Life is rewarding for Rose Carroll. A midwife in Amesbury, Massachusetts, she provides care and support for newly born babies and mothers. But life is also challenging, as Rose is…
Discover (or remember to order) your next cozy with a delightfully convenient shopping list of upcoming soft-boiled mysteries! Last month, we welcomed in spring (or we thought we would … ahem, snow storm) with March's releases; this month, we're hoping for warmer weather with April releases! Let us know in the comments how you like…
