Blood Red Roses - Softcover

Margaret Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330352385 ISBN 13: 9780330352383

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

It's 1786, Rufford, Maine, USA. As the horrors of the War of Independence begin to fade, a sequence of murders rocks young widow, Hannah Trevor's already precarious world. This is the second novel in a trilogy featuring Hannah Trevor, following "Hearts and Bones".

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Review

Margaret Lawrence's second mystery about Hannah Trevor, a smart, determined midwife living in a Maine town just after the Revolutionary War, is as good as her first, the stunningly evocative Hearts and Bones. As before, Hannah is a woman with many talents, living in a period that undervalues them. But Lawrence doesn't hammer away at this unfortunate reality, and the subtle power of her writing lets us understand the landscape in its own social frame, as in this description of a madwoman thinking about her dead husband: "He had been sweet and fond and his passion amazed her, for she had not thought herself a thing that any man could want. But she knew he did not really see her, how the dark, silent birds of rage dived and struck at her ..."

About the Author

Margaret Lawrence has written for film and the theater. She is the author of previous novels, each set in post-Revolutionary War America: Hearts and Bones, -- which was nominated for the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for Best Novel -- The Burning Bride, and Blood Red Roses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330352385
• ISBN 13: 9780330352383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480