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Midnight Ink

Charity’s Burden (A Quaker Midwife Mystery)

By Edith Maxwell - Published 2019

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In the winter of 1889, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll cares deeply for her patients in Amesbury, Massachusetts. She understands the financial difficulties of poor ...Read Review

A Gentlewoman’s Guide to Murder

By Victoria Hamilton - Published 2019

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Mystery/Crime

Miss Emmeline St. Germaine, known to her friends as ‘The Avengeress,’ has been rescuing small girls, servants in homes of the wealthy, who ...Read Review

Called to Justice

By Edith Maxwell - Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

Called to Justice is Edith Maxwell’s second Quaker Midwife Mystery, but it can very easily be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel. Rose ...Read Review

Delivering the Truth: A Quaker Midwife Mystery

By Edith Maxwell - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

In Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1888, Rose Carroll, a 24-year-old Quaker midwife, spends her days attending to expectant mothers and delivering babies. Having experienced an ...Read Review

Black Moonlight

By Amy Patricia Meade - Published 2010

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Mystery/Crime

Black Moonlight is the latest addition to the Marjorie McClelland mystery series by writer Amy Patricia Meade. If you are unfamiliar with this ...Read Review

Shadow Waltz

By Amy Patricia Meade - Published 2008

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Mystery/Crime

This is the third in a series featuring mystery writer and amateur sleuth Marjorie McClelland. It’s 1935 in Ridgebury, Connecticut, and Marjorie ...Read Review

Ghost of a Chance: A Marjorie McClelland Mystery

By Amy Patricia Meade - Published 2007

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Mystery/Crime

Marjorie McClelland, the mystery writer, her fiancé police detective, Robert Jameson, and Creighton Ashcroft, her wealthy English editor, are all at the 1935 carnival ...Read Review

A Death At The Rose Paperworks

By M.J. Zellnik - Published 2006

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Mystery/Crime

Second in the new mystery series featuring Libby Seale, seamstress with a secret in 19th-century Portland, Oregon, this outing finds Libby at the ...Read Review

Poison To Purge Melancholy

By Elena Santangelo - Published 2006

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Time-slip

The third installment in this delightful series is set during Christmas in present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Pat Montella, though promising to refrain from ghostly ...Read Review