Simply Dead, Eleanor Kuhns
Simply Dead, Eleanor Kuhns
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Simply Dead

Author: Eleanor Kuhns

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/16/2019

Synopsis

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 herincluding targeting Reess own familyshe is questioned further and claims she was kidnapped...but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious. It's agreed that Hortenses presence is endangering everyones safety and that she needs to leave. As the arrangements are made, she is hidden in Zion, the local Shaker community. But while shes there, a Shaker Sister is murdered. Witnesses describe a man fitting Josiah Wootens description, a ferocious man living in the woods with two young sons. What is the truth behind Hortenses disappearance, and who is responsible for the death of the Shaker Sister?

About Eleanor Kuhns

Eleanor Kuhns is the 2011 winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition. She lives in Campbell Hall, New York, received her master's in Library Science from Columbia University, and is currently the Assistant Director at the Goshen Public Library in Orange County, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on September 03, 2019

Will Rees, his wife, and family live in the house that his wife inherited and that the Shaker community covets. He married into the Shaker community, even though the Shakers don't seem to accept him that much. He had previously investigated a murder in the community and it seems that he will be doin......more

Goodreads review by Missi on December 23, 2024

Simply Dead is the seventh book in the Will Rees Mystery series written by Eleanor Kuhns. It doesn't matter if you have read every book in the series, a few, one or none, as soon as you start reading Simply Dead you will feel like you are in the middle of winter in the 1790's. In Simply Dead Will Ree......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on August 03, 2019

I received a copy to facilitate my review. The opinions expressed here are my own. Hortense a young midwife fails to return home after delivering a baby. Her mother and uncle seek out help from Will Rees. Will finds Hortense with no shoes and no cloak. As the snow comes down heavier it is decided to......more

Goodreads review by Cathie on March 21, 2022

When Hortense, a midwife, fails to return home following a birth, several townsfolk go out looking for her. Will Rees finds her stumbling through the snow barefoot and petrified. He brings her back to his house to recover. After one of his daughters becomes a victim of an attempted abduction, the de......more

Goodreads review by Soozee on April 14, 2019

This book is set in the early days of America, the story revolving around young women going missing in the depths of winter. The first girl, Hortense, is the daughter of the local midwife who fails to return after going out to attend a birth. The book evokes the life of that time, where distances be......more

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