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Cover Her Body (edição 2011)

por Eleanor Sullivan (Autor)

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In a strict, religious society in 1830s rural Ohio, a 16-year-old girl is murdered because she's pregnant, but the only person who suspects it wasn't an accident is Adelaide, a young midwife, who worries that the remedy she gave the girl for a "woman's ailment" caused her death. Adelaide's husband, Benjamin, fearful that they'll be banned from the prosperous community, forbids her from questioning the girl's death. But a mistake she made years ago cost the life of a mother and her unborn babe, and Adelaide vowed to never let another mother die. Pressure mounts when Adelaide is accused of harming the girl, but the allegation only fuels her determination to find the killer, even though she begins to suspect that her husband might be involved in the girl's death. And the more she investigates, not only does she start to question her own faith and beliefs, but she finds herself attracted to an unlikely man in the community, a man who has vowed to remain celibate. Then her questions alert the outside authorities, and now this isolated community is invaded by the very society they had shunned. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eleanor Sullivan is an award-winning author of books for nurses as well as the Monika Everhardt medical mysteries. Holding both a nursing degree and a doctorate, she is a former dean of nursing and past president of the world's largest nursing organization. Now she's turned her attention to the past, crafting a series of historical mysteries set in the 19th century religious settlement of her ancestors. The stories feature a midwife and her cabinet-maker husband in the Northern Ohio village of Zoar. Cover Her Body is the first book in the series.… (mais)
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Título:Cover Her Body
Autores:Eleanor Sullivan (Autor)
Informação:Yesteryear Press, A Wyatt-MacKenzie Imprint (2011), 312 pages
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Cover Her Body, A Singular Village Mystery (Singular Village Mysteries) por Eleanor Sullivan

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Eleanor Sullivan’s Cover Her Body is a historical Murder Mystery set in 1830’s Zoar, Ohio. A Separatist community follows strict rules, as many religious sects stemming from Old World countries. However, history is filled with instances where such strict adherence is not only an obstacle to law and order, but the actually the cause of life-threatening actions. In Sullivan’s tale of religious rules, young love, murder, women’s struggle for equality, and self-awareness, there is nothing lacking.

Adelaide, the main character and hero, is a young married woman struggling with an awakening of the world around her, and an opening and expanding mind; when she comes upon the reality that her dear friend’s daughter has been murdered. Determined to find the killer, she is relentless in her search for the truth of what happened, and at the same time, discovers that the flickers of self-doubt that plague her are unwarranted.

The characters are a rich tapestry of vivid and vibrant workmanship. Each may be woven of Fiction, but form a reality that is impenetrable by the reader’s mind and eyes. Head to foot creative artistry is abound as the tale unfolds, and readers attempt to follow the clues Adelaide is putting together to solve the crime that only she is willing to accept as a reality.

The plot is interesting and tantalizing to the senses. Erected in the simplistic countryside of Ohio, the tale is anything but basic. It holds a multitude of layers and stories within the main tale. A reader will never be bored with this novel, although it bears careful reading, if for no other reason than the reader’s attempt to solve the crime before Adelaide.

I do not make a habit out of reading Mystery, and have been known, at times, to avoid the genre do to the monotonous repetition of story line and plot devices. That said, I was not only pleasantly surprised by the familiar yet fresh feel of this novel, that I found myself enveloped by the author work and eager to continue the read until end. I would definitely recommend this work to any reader eager for a worthy and engrossing experience. ( )
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In a strict, religious society in 1830s rural Ohio, a 16-year-old girl is murdered because she's pregnant, but the only person who suspects it wasn't an accident is Adelaide, a young midwife, who worries that the remedy she gave the girl for a "woman's ailment" caused her death. Adelaide's husband, Benjamin, fearful that they'll be banned from the prosperous community, forbids her from questioning the girl's death. But a mistake she made years ago cost the life of a mother and her unborn babe, and Adelaide vowed to never let another mother die. Pressure mounts when Adelaide is accused of harming the girl, but the allegation only fuels her determination to find the killer, even though she begins to suspect that her husband might be involved in the girl's death. And the more she investigates, not only does she start to question her own faith and beliefs, but she finds herself attracted to an unlikely man in the community, a man who has vowed to remain celibate. Then her questions alert the outside authorities, and now this isolated community is invaded by the very society they had shunned. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eleanor Sullivan is an award-winning author of books for nurses as well as the Monika Everhardt medical mysteries. Holding both a nursing degree and a doctorate, she is a former dean of nursing and past president of the world's largest nursing organization. Now she's turned her attention to the past, crafting a series of historical mysteries set in the 19th century religious settlement of her ancestors. The stories feature a midwife and her cabinet-maker husband in the Northern Ohio village of Zoar. Cover Her Body is the first book in the series.

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