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Death in the Great Dismal
Eleanor Kuhns
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
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.
Rezensionen
<i>A fine mystery that powerfully evokes the privations of the period</i>
<i>The plot twists rank among the author'
<i>An indefatigable, principled main character and an immersive early-republic setting, nicely delineating the life and times of the era, distinguish this historical mystery</i>
Kundenbewertungen
1800s, The Great Dismal Swamp, Nineteenth century, Maine, Shaker community, Slave catchers, Slavery, Gabriel Prosser, 12 Years a Slave, Freedom, Historical mystery, Emancipation, Disguise, Racial tension, Chaingangs, Crossdressing, Race