Sister Rose Callahan Series by Deborah Woodworth (4,6)
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Overview: Deborah Woodworth spent her childhood in southern Ohio near the abandoned sites of several Shaker villages. Before turning to writing, she earned her Ph.D. in Sociology of Religion and spent a decade conducting research and teaching. She lives in New Brighton, Minnesota, near the Twin Cities.
Genre: Mystery
4. A Simple Shaker Murder
Despite the hardships of the Great Depression, Sister Rose Callahan’s Shaker village of North Homage is surviving nicely. Now they have visitorsa group of "reformers" hoping to create a utopian community that allows more freedom. Rose is disturbed by the group’s attitudes…and stunned when one of their members is found hanging from a tree.
The police are quick to rule the death a suicide but as Rose is leaving the orchard she notices a child hiding in a tree. She is Marin, the orphaned foster child of the dead man, and Rose believes she may have witnessed the hanging. The little girl appears to be deeply troubled, and Rose is shocked to discover the cruelty and neglect that has cursed her short life. Rose’s fears grow as Shaker beliefs are challenged, questions about the death remain unanswered, and the little girl draws strange and mysterious pictures of her dreams…images revealing a terrible evil, and the danger that someone may be plotting to silence the only witness to a murder.Despite the hardships of the Great Depression, Sister Rose Callahan’s Shaker village of North Homage is surviving nicely. Now they have visitors-a group of "reformers" hoping to create a utopian community that allows more freedom. Rose is disturbed by the group’s attitudes…and stunned when one of their members is found hanging from a tree.
The police are quick to rule the death a suicide but as Rose is leaving the orchard she notices a child hiding in a tree. She is Marin, the orphaned foster child of the dead man, and Rose believes she may have witnessed the hanging. The little girl appears to be deeply troubled, and Rose is shocked to discover the cruelty andneglect that has cursed her short life. Rose’s fears grow as Shaker beliefs are challenged, questions about the death remain unanswered, and the little girl draws strange and mysterious pictures of her dreams…images revealing a terrible evil, and the danger that someone may be plotting to silence the only witness to a murder.
6. Dancing Dead
The curious are flocking to a quaint Kentucky village, where the North Homage Shakers have opened a hostel rumored to be inhabited by a nineteenth-century spirit. Business is booming even in the throes of the Great Depression — until a hostel guest is found murdered and Sister Rose Callahan is compelled to investigate. An orphan girl claims to have seen a hooded specter dancing through the village. And now Sister Rose fears there is more than one ghost involved in this dark shadow play — as the secrets haunting visiting strangers and the local devout alike threaten to turn Shaker against Shaker and shatter their peaceful society forever.
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