Blood Red Roses - Hardcover

Lawrence, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380973529 ISBN 13: 9780380973521

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

When midwife Hannah Trevor, fighting for custody of her eight-year-old daughter in 1786 Maine, becomes a suspect in the murder of a man from her past, she must struggle to clear her name and find the truth. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0380973529
• ISBN 13: 9780380973521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 353