Arts
Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries and award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she writes the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. Maxwell, with twenty novels in print and four more completed, has been nominated for an Agatha Award six times. She lives north of Boston with her beau and an elderly cat, and gardens and cooks when she isn’t killing people on the page or wasting time on Facebook. Please find her at edithmaxwell.com, on Instagram, at the Wicked Authors blog, and at Killer Characters. Meet Edith when the Wickeds go on tour, October 4-6: https://wickedauthors.com/2019/09/20/the-wickeds-on-tour/ Other appearances: Jabberwocky Books, Newburyport, MA Oct 6, 7 pm Country Bookseller, Wolfeboro, NH Oct 7, 4-6 pm White Birch Books, Conway, NH Oct 8 2 pm Boston Book Festival, Boston, MA Oct 19 11 am New England Crime Bake, Woburn, MA Nov 8-10 Judge Thee Not: No stranger to judgmental attitudes in her small town, 1880s Quaker midwife, Rose Carroll, is nonetheless stunned when society matron Mayme Settle publicly snubs Rose’s good friend, Bertie, for her nontraditional ways. When Mrs. Settle is later found murdered—and a supposed witness insists Bertie was spotted near the scene of the crime—the police blame her. Rose is certain her friend is innocent, and she enlists the help of a blind pregnant client—who’s endured her own share of prejudice—to help her sift through the clues. As the two uncover a slew of suspects tied to financial intrigues, illicit love, and an age-old grudge over perceived wrongs, circumstantial evidence looms large in small minds, and Rose fears her friend will soon become the victim of a grave injustice—or worse.