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Edith Maxwell

Biography

Agatha Award winning author Edith Maxwell writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries and award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she pens the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. Maxwell lives with her beau north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. She blogs at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen twice a month and every weekday with the other Wicked Authors (wickedauthors.com). She hopes you’ll find her at www.edithmaxwell.com and on social media under both names.

Where to find Edith Maxwell online

Website: http://www.edithmaxwell.com

Series

Quaker Midwife Mysteries by
The Agatha Award-winning historical mystery series featuring Quaker midwife Rose Carroll!
Judge Thee Not
Price: $4.99 USD.
Taken Too Soon
Price: $4.99 USD.
A Changing Light
Price: $4.99 USD.

Books

A Changing Light by
Series: Quaker Midwife Mysteries, Book 7. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 52,270. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2021 by Beyond the Page Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
In a new mystery from Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, midwife Rose Carroll confronts a killer on the cusp of a new age . . .
Called to Justice by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,090. Language: English. Published: January 28, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Religious
After a former slave and fellow Quaker is accused of a mill girl's murder, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll investigates, certain of his innocence. She delivers babies and listen to secrets, finally focusing in on the culprit - only to be threatened herself.
Delivering the Truth by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,200. Language: English. Published: January 28, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
Midwife Rose Carroll becomes a suspect and then a sleuth in two cases of murder. Can Rose’s strengths as a counselor and problem solver help bring the murderers to justice before they destroy the town’s 1880s carriage industry and the people who run it?
Charity's Burden by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 68,420. Language: English. Published: January 27, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA, Fiction » Religious
After her pregnant client dies, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll investigates a mysterious woman who appears to offer illegal abortions and herbal birth control, and a disgraced physician in town who does the same. Rose once again works with the police detective to solve the case before another life is taken.
Turning the Tide by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 71,560. Language: English. Published: January 26, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Religious
Excitement runs high during Presidential election week in 1888. The Woman Suffrage Association plans a demonstration and Quaker midwife Rose Carroll resolves to join the protest. When she finds the body of the association’s leader the next morning, she’s drawn into delivering more than babies. Rose’s own life is threatened more than once as she sorts out killer from innocent.
Taken Too Soon by
Series: Quaker Midwife Mysteries, Book 6. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 74,780. Language: English. Published: September 8, 2020 by Beyond the Page Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
A new book in the Agatha Award-winning series by Edith Maxwell! Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must turn her investigative skills on her own family when a young woman’s murder stuns a New England community . . .
Murder on the Bluffs by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 70,440. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2020 by Beyond the Page Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
In the second Lauren Rousseau Mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a grisly murder stirs up long-buried secrets surrounding the disappearance and death of Lauren’s father . . .
Speaking of Murder by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 71,620. Language: English. Published: July 21, 2020 by Beyond the Page Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
In this suspenseful mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a startling murder exposes dark dealings in a quiet New England town . . .
Judge Thee Not by
Series: Quaker Midwife Mysteries, Book 5. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 75,850. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2019 by Beyond the Page Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must fight bias and blind assumptions to clear the name of a friend when a murderer strikes in nineteenth-century Massachusetts . . . “Elegant and well-crafted, rich in period detail, Edith Maxwell’s latest foray is a stunner!” —Susanna Calkins, author of the award-winning Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy Mysteries
The Stonecutter by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,630. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
“The Stonecutter,” a short story of middle-aged love gone terribly wrong, depicts librarian Eleanor and Portuguese stonecutter Fernando Andrade in an increasingly dark New England fall.
The Importance of Blood by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,600. Language: English. Published: December 2, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
Jody and Katie. Twins. Identical but so different. Same blood, same DNA. But not the same fingerprints, ambition, or attachment to family. Which turns out to be lethal in the end.
An Idea for Murder by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,130. Language: English. Published: November 20, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
No story, no paycheck. Crime fiction writer Dorothy finally hits on an idea for her next story, which turns out to be fatal in real life, too.
Just Desserts for Johnny by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,300. Language: English. Published: May 7, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
Yvonne Maupin thinks her dream has come true when a publisher accepts her literary novel, Souls by the Bay. After things don’t turn out as she had planned, she carries out the most satisfying revenge of all.
Yatsuhashi for Lance by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,760. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
Elise Chase teaches English in Japan and is about to start a graduate program back in the States. When she agrees to accept a package for her friend Lance, things go terribly wrong and change her life forever. Years later she sends him a sweet package of revenge.
Reduction in Force by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,050. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
When Jackie Rousseau loses her job as a software engineer to outsourcing, she manages to stay afloat financially. She sees the damage the reduction in force wreaks on her friends' lives, though, and decides to deliver a dose of revenge.

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