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Finding themselves in a slave community hidden within the Great
Dismal Swamp, Will Rees and his wife Lydia get caught up in a
dangerous murder case where no one trusts them. September 1800,
Maine. Will Rees is beseeched by Tobias, an old friend abducted by
slave catchers years before, to travel south to Virginia to help
transport his pregnant wife, Ruth, back north. Though he's
reluctant, Will's wife Lydia convinces him to go . . . on the
condition she accompanies them. Upon arriving in a small community
of absconded slaves hiding within the Great Dismal Swamp, Will and
Lydia are met with distrust. Tensions are high and a fight breaks
out between Tobias and Scipio, a philanderer with a bounty on his
head known for conning men out of money. The following day Scipio
is found dead - shot in the back. Stuck within the hostile Great
Dismal and with slave catchers on the prowl, Will and Lydia find
themselves caught up in their most dangerous case yet.
A circus arrives in Durham in the 1790s and the whole town is
excited. until the body of a Shaker girl is found beaten. 1790s.
The circus has arrived in Durham, Maine. Before weaver Will Rees is
able to take in its spectacle, he spots Magistrate Hanson - the man
he blames for his family's having to flee Dugard two years earlier.
On his journey home he encounters Shaker brothers searching for a
girl from their Zion community. Despite women not being allowed
inside the circus, Leah had snuck out to visit it. They quickly
come across her lifeless body beaten and thrown into a farmer's
field on the road leading to the circus. Bored of his household
chores, Rees begins investigating at the expense of his home life.
He becomes entranced by the lives of the circus performers,
including the charismatic horse rider and tightrope walker. Is his
longing for his old journeyman's life causing him to take his eye
off the case, and can he stay out of Hanson's way and keep his
family safe?
A circus arrives in Durham in the 1790s and the whole town is
excited. until the body of a Shaker girl is found beaten. 1790s.
The circus has arrived in Durham, Maine. Before weaver Will Rees is
able to take in its spectacle, he spots Magistrate Hanson - the man
he blames for his family's having to flee Dugard two years earlier.
On his journey home he encounters Shaker brothers searching for a
girl from their Zion community. Despite women not being allowed
inside the circus, Leah had snuck out to visit it. They quickly
come across her lifeless body beaten and thrown into a farmer's
field on the road leading to the circus. Bored of his household
chores, Rees begins investigating at the expense of his home life.
He becomes entranced by the lives of the circus performers,
including the charismatic horse rider and tightrope walker. Is his
longing for his old journeyman's life causing him to take his eye
off the case, and can he stay out of Hanson's way and keep his
family safe?
A midwife disappears after attending the birth of a child in
another community, leading to an investigation that uncovers
innumerable lies and secrets. 1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter
Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the
woodlands. During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through
the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. After two young men
begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting
Rees's own family - she is questioned further and claims she was
kidnapped . . . but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. It is
agreed Hortense's presence is endangering everyone's safety and she
needs to leave. As the arrangements are made she is hidden in Zion,
the local Shaker community, only while there a Shaker Sister is
murdered. Witnesses describe a man fitting Josiah Wooten's
description, a ferocious man living in the woods with two young
sons. What is the truth behind Hortense's disappearance, and who is
responsible for the death of the Shaker Sister?
'This series shows no sign of running out of steam' Publisher's
Weekly Will Rees is on a very personal mission - to clear his
wife's estranged father of murder - in this claustrophobic
turn-of-the-century mystery novel set in Boston. January, 1801.
When Lydia's estranged father is accused of murder, Will Rees
escorts her to Boston to uncover the truth. Marcus Farrell is
believed to have murdered one of his workers, a boy from Jamaica
where he owns a plantation. Marcus swears he's innocent. However, a
scandal has been aroused by his refusal to answer questions and
accusations he bribed officials. As Will and Lydia investigate,
Marcus's brother, Julian, is shot and killed. This time, all
fingers point towards James Morris, Lydia's brother. Is someone
targeting the family? Were the family quarreling over the family
businesses and someone lashed out? What's Marcus hiding and why
won't he accept help? With the Farrell family falling apart and
their reputation in tatters, Will and Lydia must solve the murders
soon. But will they succeed before the murderer strikes again?
A peaceful Shaker community is rocked by a series of bizarre
accidents, but is there more to them than first appears? Fresh from
facing allegations of witchcraft and murder, travelling weaver Will
Rees, his heavily pregnant wife Lydia and six adopted children take
refuge in Zion, a Shaker community in rural Maine. Shortly after
their arrival, screams in the night reveal a drowned body . but is
it murder or an unfortunate accident? The Shaker Elders argue it
was just an accident, but Rees believes otherwise. As Will
investigates further, more deaths follow and a young girl vanishes
from the community. Haunted by nightmares for his family's safety,
Rees must rush to uncover the truth before the dreams can become
reality and more lives are lost. Yet can the Shaker Elders be
trusted, or is an outsider involved?
Will Rees faces a moral dilemma when a slaveholder is murdered
while attempting to recapture a former slave: should he pursue
lawful justice or should he let the killer go free? November 1800,
Maine. After helping their long-time friend Tobias escort his wife,
along with a liberated slave and her child, from the Great Dismal
back to Durham, Will and Lydia Rees's lives are interrupted when a
dead body is found near their home. The body is that of Mr Gilbert,
a slaveholder from the Great Dismal. Was he murdered in pursuit of
the former slaves? When it's discovered Gilbert was infected with
smallpox, and Gilbert's sister arrives demanding justice and the
return of her absconded slaves, Will is torn. Finding the killer
could lead to the recapture of the former slaves. Letting them go
free could result in a false arrest and endanger the Durham
community. Will must make a choice . . .
Will Rees feels at home. It's been a long time since he last felt
this way not since before his wife died years ago and he took to
the road as a traveling weaver. Now, in 1796, Rees is back on his
Maine farm, living with his teenaged son, David, and his
housekeeper, Lydia whose presence contributes more towards his
happiness than he's ready to admit. But his domestic bliss is
shattered the morning a visitor brings news of an old friend's
murder.Nate Bowditch and Rees hadn't spoken in many long years, but
as children they were closer than brothers, and Rees feels his loss
acutely. Asked to look into the circumstances surrounding Nate's
death, Rees simply can't refuse. At the Bowditch farmstead, Rees
quickly discovers that everyone from Nate's frosty wife to his
missing son to the shy serving girl is hiding something. But are
any of them actually capable of murder? Or does the answer lie
elsewhere, behind stones no one even knew needed unturning?"Death
of a Dyer" once again proves Eleanor Kuhns's remarkable ability to
spin a captivating story of a fascinating era and capture the light
and darker sides of human nature on the page."
Five years ago, while William Rees was still recovering from his
stint as a Revolutionary War soldier, his beloved wife died.
Devastated, Rees left his son, David, in his sister's care, fled
his Maine farm, and struck out for a tough but emotionally empty
life as a travelling weaver. Now, upon returning unexpectedly to
his farm, Rees discovers that David has been treated like a serf
for years and finally ran away to join a secluded religious sect -
the Shakers. Overwhelmed by guilt and hoping to reconcile with his
son, Rees immediately follows David to the Shaker community. But
when a young Shaker woman is brutally murdered shortly after Rees'
arrival, Rees finds himself launched into a complicated
investigation where the bodies keep multiplying, a tangled web of
family connections casts suspicion on everyone, and the beautiful
woman on the edge of the Shaker community might be hiding troubling
ties to the victims. It quickly becomes clear that in solving
Sister Chastity's murder, Rees may well expose some of the Shaker
community's darkest secrets, not to mention endanger his own life.
A midwife disappears after attending the birth of a child in
another community, leading to an investigation that uncovers
innumerable lies and secrets. 1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter
Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the
woodlands. During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through
the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. After two young men
begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting
Rees's own family - she is questioned further and claims she was
kidnapped . . . but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. It is
agreed Hortense's presence is endangering everyone's safety and she
needs to leave. As the arrangements are made she is hidden in Zion,
the local Shaker community, only while there a Shaker Sister is
murdered. Witnesses describe a man fitting Josiah Wooten's
description, a ferocious man living in the woods with two young
sons. What is the truth behind Hortense's disappearance, and who is
responsible for the death of the Shaker Sister?
Finding themselves in a slave community hidden within the Great
Dismal Swamp, Will Rees and his wife Lydia get caught up in a
dangerous murder case where no one trusts them. September 1800,
Maine. Will Rees is beseeched by Tobias, an old friend abducted by
slave catchers years before, to travel south to Virginia to help
transport his pregnant wife, Ruth, back north. Though he's
reluctant, Will's wife Lydia convinces him to go . . . on the
condition she accompanies them. Upon arriving in a small community
of absconded slaves hiding within the Great Dismal Swamp, Will and
Lydia are met with distrust. Tensions are high and a fight breaks
out between Tobias and Scipio, a philanderer with a bounty on his
head known for conning men out of money. The following day Scipio
is found dead - shot in the back. Stuck within the hostile Great
Dismal and with slave catchers on the prowl, Will and Lydia find
themselves caught up in their most dangerous case yet.
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