The Widows of Braxton County, Jess McConkey
The Widows of Braxton County, Jess McConkey
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The Widows of Braxton County
A Novel

Author: Jess McConkey

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/23/2013


Synopsis

Widows of Braxton County by Jess McConkey is a haunting and suspenseful novel about family secrets and how well we really know the people we love.
 
Kate is looking forward to starting a new life with her new husband, Joseph Krause. She leaves the big city and moves with him to the Iowa farm that has been in his family for more than 140 years.
 
Instead of something out of Country Living, Kate finds life on the farm a struggle. She hears gossip from the unfriendly neighbors about the connection between the Krause family and a mysterious death decades before.
 
As the past creeps into Kate’s present, she’s caught in a web of dangerous, unexplainable events.
 
Jess McConkey, who is also published under the pseudonym Shirley Damsgaard, is an award-winning writer of short fiction.

About Jess McConkey

Jess McConkey, aka Shirley Damsgaard, is an award-winning writer of short fiction and the author of the Ophelia and Abby mysteries and Love Lies Bleeding. She lives in a small Iowa town, where she served as postmaster for more than twenty years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara

Just finished this stunning mystery yesterday. It is set in rural Iowa in two time periods. The first is 1890 on the Krause farm where we meet Hannah Krause, wife of Jacob. Jacob is a brutish lout who beats her and has practically imprisoned her on the farm. Her teenage stepson lives in a cabin near......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Kate readily accepts marrying a farmer name Joe,just to escape her meddling grandmother. Living in her household has not done anything in her favor, she rather live in a shack than to live with her. Not to mention her unrealistic demands and the pity party she throws so she can gain sympathy. Howeve......more

Kate is a young bride who puts her city dwelling life behind her when she marries Joe Krause and moves to his farm in Iowa, which has been in his family for over a hundred years. She wants to build a life and a family there with Joe. But after she arrives, she discovers that he has misrepresented man......more

Goodreads review by Amy

I couldn't put it down.......more