Simply Dead
by Eleanor Kuhns

A midwife disappears after attending the birth of a child in another community, leading to an investigation that uncovers innumerable lies and secrets.

1790s, Maine. In the depths of winter Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat.

After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her – including targeting Rees’s own family – she is questioned further and claims she was kidnapped . . . but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. It is agreed Hortense’s presence is endangering everyone’s safety and she needs to leave. As the arrangements are made she is hidden in Zion, the local Shaker community, only while there a Shaker Sister is murdered. Witnesses describe a man fitting Josiah Wooten’s description, a ferocious man living in the woods with two young sons.

What is the truth behind Hortense’s disappearance, and who is responsible for the death of the Shaker Sister?

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Simply Dead by Eleanor Kuhns is available in the following formats

Hardback978072788884630th April 2019145 X 223mm224£20.99
Hardback97807278888461st August 2019145 X 223mm224$28.99
Ebook97814483022151st June 2019N/A224£4.99
Ebook97814483022151st June 2019N/A224£4.99
Hardback - Large Print *978072789254627th October 2020144 X 224mm320$36.95
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Paperback978178029604331st January 2020136 X 216mm224£13.99
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Eleanor Kuhns

Eleanor Kuhns is a previous winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition for A Simple Murder. The author of seven previous Will Rees mysteries, she is now a full-time writer after a successful career as the Assistant Director at the Goshen Public Library in Orange County, New York.

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