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Midwife Catherine Williams goes out one snowy afternoon to administer first aid to the eccentric owner of a neighboring farm. Days later, old man Powell is found dead--not from the wound Catherine tended, but from a killer's brutal work. And his young apprentice has disappeared. Suspicion instantly falls upon Massaquoit, Catherine's Indian servant. But the midwife knows that fear, ignorance, and old grudges--not evidence--lie behind the accusations. While Massaquoit sets out to prove his innocence in his own fashion, Catherine continues her rounds, gathering clues about the dark secrets--murderous and otherwise that simmer beneath Newbury's Puritan piety ...
This book is part of the "Mystery of Colonial Times" series. Here are some other books from this series:
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