The brilliant new novel in the prestigious mystery series that combines fascinating American history, the early women's rights movement...and murder.Basing her Seneca Falls mystery series on actual historical events, Miriam Grace Monfredo has received critical acclaim for her vivid depiction of nineteenth-century America, when women, abolitionists, and other social reformers fought to reshape the nation... In the spring of 1861, only whispers of the Civil War are heard in New York state, until Seneca Falls's librarian Glynis Tryon tries to save an indentured servant girl from a murder charge--and gets tangled in a tapestry of lust, high treason, and legal treachery that brings the stark reality of the growing Civil War close to home...* The last Seneca Falls mystery, The Stalking-Horse,
… read more...was named One of 1998's Best Adult Mysteries for Young Adults by the Voice of Youth Advocacy, and received a "Best" Review in Library Journal's Young Adult Section* Sixth in the highly acclaimed and successful series"Written beautifully, richly satisfying both to the head and to the heart." --Anne Perry"The genius of Monfredo is to teach 'herstory' while absorbing the reader in a good old-fashioned mystery."--Newsday"A marvelous eye to historical detail...If you have not read this author, then you are missing out."--The Merchant of MenaceRead More read less...