Sins of a Shaker Summer
A Sister Rose Callahan Mystery
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Publisher Description
Rose Callahan, newly appointed eldress of the community of Believers at the Kentucky Shaker viliage of North Homage, confesses to a nagging resentment toward Andrew, sent by the lead ministry in Mount Lebanon to act as trustee. She knows little about the man, except that he's taken charge of the Medicinal Herb Garden, over which Rose previously had control, and he's been expanding the tiny industry and experimenting with new medicinal herbs.
Now two little girls have suddenly become deathly ill, and Rose's attention turns to the herb garden. Suspecting that the girls may have taken a notion to nibble on pretty but poisonous plants, she fears their hallowed land may have accidentally been turned into a killing ground. But as Rose investigates, mysterious death invades the gentle oasis of their spiritual world, and some chilling secrets come to light...secrets that bring Rose closer to a truth that even a nonviolent Believer might kill to keep.
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"We might find that all we have here is a group of secretive Believers who value their personal success more than their vows," says Eldress Rose Callahan with a resentful eye on Brother Andrew Clark, the new trustee of North Homage, sent to the Kentucky village by the Shaker's Lead Ministry to help expand their medicinal herb industry. While most of the village considers Andrew a godsend to the dwindling brethren, Rose has misgivings about him and the experimental herbs he's cultivating. Her apprehension grows when two children become deathly ill after ingesting a substance she is certain came from Andrew's Medicinal Herb House. Uncovering the mystery will require a lot of snooping and a little help from her perky prot g, Gennie (who left the flock for a worldly life in Death of a Winter Shaker). Here, as in Woodworth's two previous Depression-era Shaker titles, readers are treated to a vivid look into a fascinating culture while enjoying a first-rate mystery.
