Death in the Great Dismal by Eleanor Kuhns

Death in the Great Dismal by Eleanor Kuhns

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.

Eleanor Kuhns won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel contest in 2011. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Goshen Public Library in Orange County, New York, where she obtained her master's in library science from Columbia University. Her debut novel is A Simple Murder.

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ISBN 13	9780727890238
ISBN 10	0727890239
Title	Death in the Great Dismal
Author	Eleanor Kuhns
Series	A Will Rees Mystery
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2020-10-30
Number of pages	224
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