Simply Dead by Eleanor Kuhns
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Its the 1790s, in Maine and winter has arrived. Several weeks earlier Hortense a young midwife had gone to help with the birthing of the latest Bennett member. But it is only now that it is noticed that she had left the Bennetts but not arrived home. As a search party is organised to find her Will Rees discovers her in a bad way. But why was she kidnapped. Feeling that she is still in danger she is secreted away in Zion, the local Shaker community. But then a Sister is killed. What was the motive and will this be the end of the killings
An enjoyable, well-plotted and well-written story. With certainly some likeable characters.
Although there is mention of past events in the lives of the Rees family the book can easily be read as a standalone story.
A NetGalley Book

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