Today
we’re joined by Rose Carroll, from author Edith Maxwell’s Quaker Midwife
Mystery series.
What was your life like
before your author started pulling your strings?
I was happily working as a midwife, with murder
nowhere in sight.
What’s the
one trait you like most about yourself?
I like that I’m independent, in my midwifery and my
investigations. It’s not common for a young woman, but being a Quaker gives me
more freedom from society’s strictures.
What do you
like least about yourself?
I experienced an emotional trauma when I was younger
that still haunts me, and I find it hard to completely recover from it.
What is the
strangest thing your author has had you do or had happen to you?
She had me on a wild horseback ride to the beach, but
that’s not too strange. I suppose it was when I was abducted by a villain.
After some time I managed to both overpower him and help a baby be born. Not
the usual birthing scene!
Do you
argue with your author? If so, what do you argue about?
She puts me in harm’s way, and I don’t like it. In
the new story, I walk to help a birthing client I’ve never met before – in a
snowstorm – and end up with a concussed head by way of thanks.
What is
your greatest fear?
That something will happen to my beloved family or my
darling betrothed, David Dodge.
What makes
you happy?
Witnessing God’s miracle of a healthy baby born to a
healthy mother always makes me happy. A successful birth never fails to bring
joy to my heart.
If you
could rewrite a part of your story, what would it be? Why?
See my answer about the head injury! Good heavens,
did I need that?
Of the other characters in
your book, which one bugs you the most? Why?
I’m afraid David’s mother Clarinda Dodge and I
don’t see eye to eye. She doesn’t approve of us courting and is most unhappy
about the prospect that we might marry. David blessedly doesn’t let her sway
him, and his father is also fond of me.
Of the other characters in
your book, which one would you love to trade places with? Why?
I confess to a bit of envy about my friend Bertie
Winslow’s carefree, eccentric nature, which she somehow combines with a
professional position of some influence. She rides her horse astride, she isn’t
concerned with gossip about her living arrangements with her dear Sophie, and
she runs the Amesbury post office with a firm and cheerful hand.
Tell us a little something
about your author. Where can readers find her website/blog?
Edith also writes two mystery series set in thy
modern times, as well as short crime fiction. Our second tale, Called to
Justice, is nominated this year for an Agatha Award for Best Historical
Novel. Edith is president of a group called Sisters in Crime New England and
is, like me, a member of the Religious Society of Friends. She lives with her
man and two elderly cats right here in Amesbury, Massachusetts – in the same
house where I reside! All of her writing is well represented at her website,
and Dear Reader, she hopes thee might sign up for her quarterly newsletter
there.
What's next for you?
My next story is Charity’s Trouble, which
will be available to read a year from now. In it a mother of six dies from an
apparent miscarriage, but Rose discovers her death was caused by something much
more evil.
I believe Edith will use the fifth book in the
series (to appear in 2020) to describe a case I worked on with Jeanne, a blind
woman I cared for in her pregnancy. Humans can be so stupid – many believe she
has a lack of intelligence simply because she cannot see. But such beliefs let
her be privy – and therefore me, as well – to hearing a great many secrets. We
found the killer, delivered her baby, and have remained fast friends.
Turning the Tide
During Presidential election week in 1888, the
Woman Suffrage Association plans a demonstration and Quaker midwife Rose
Carroll joins the protest. When she finds a prominent suffragist dead the next
morning, Rose must deliver more than babies. Her own life is repeatedly
threatened as she sorts out killer from innocent.
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