A review by libscote
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Martha Ballard is a midwife living in Hallowell, Maine (then Massachusetts) in 1789. It's a snowy winter, and a dead body has just shown up in the Kennebec. She provides testimony that she thinks he was murdered, and a doctor challenges that instead it was a suicide. A story of life in Maine during that period and a mystery about what happened with the body follows. Excellent in all regards.
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