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"is a tremendous entry in one of the best historical series on the market today"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 28, 2005

Just back from delivering a baby boy, widow midwife Sarah Brandt returns home to the tenement apartment she shares with Maeve and four year old Aggie. Maeve informs her that a respectable looking older gent came by and left her note. Mr. and Mrs. Linton of the Upper Read more...

"A great historical mystery"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted June 28, 2005

Sarah Brandt is a midwife working in the tenements of New York around the turn of the 20th Century. She often helps her friend Detective Sergeant Malloy with cases. She is summoned by the wealthy Lintons to their home. Their teenaged daughter, Grace, is mentally still a child. Read more...

Summary

A midwife working in the tenements of turn-of-the-last-century New York, Sarah Brandt is summoned by the wealthy Lintons to confirm their worst fear: their teenaged daughter is with child. It's a mystery, however, since the young woman—mentally still a child herself—is never left alone.

With the help of her friend Detective Sergeant Malloy, Sarah vows to crack this delicate case, especially since suspicion is on those close to the Lintons. Then, when one of the suspects is poisoned, Sarah knows she must uncover the truth before more lives are ruined.