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Dallas, Sandra.
The Last Midwife
[TP] /
Sandra Dallas.
First edition.
New York :
St. Martins Press,
2015.
℗2015.
viii, 353 pages ;
22 cm.
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It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered many babies in her lifetime. She is an important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead...and the evidence points to Gracy as the killer. Gracy knows she didn't commit the crime. But her innocence isn't quite that simple, either. She knows things and that's dangerous. Invited into her neighbors' homes during their most intimate times, she can't help what she sees or hears. A woman sometimes says things in the birthing bed. Gracy has always tucked those revelations away. With her friends taking sides and a trial looming, Gracy must decide whether it's worth risking everything to prove her innocence. And she knows that her years of discretion may simply demand too high a price now...especially since she's been keeping more than a few dark secrets of her own.
20161018.
Midwives
Fiction.
Infanticide
Fiction.
Murder
Investigation
Fiction.
Colorado
Social life and customs
19th century
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Mystery fiction.