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| Delaware and Raritan Canal, Lambertville, NJ |
Author Lois Winston often travels to Lambertville, NJ
to meet a cousin from Pennsylvania for lunch because it’s halfway between their
two homes. Those of you who are frequent visitors to the blog will probably
remember the Lambertville yarn-bombing photo I posted recently. Of course, given who Lois is and how she delights
in tormenting me, it was only a matter of time before the bucolic town showed
up in one of her books.
Lambertville, is a quaint town on the Delaware River
with a rich Revolutionary history. It’s also along the path of the Delaware and
Raritan Canal, a forty-four mile canal that spanned the narrowest section of
the state from Bordentown to New Brunswick. The canal was critical to the flow
of cargo during the nineteen-century industrial and commercial development of
the region.
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| Archival photo of when the canal was still in operation |
The canal is now a park, but it’s also where, thanks
to Lois, a body with a connection to my family and me is discovered at the end
of Decoupage Can Be Deadly, drawing me into yet another murder investigation in A Stitch To Die For. The woman just won’t give me a
break!
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| Shops along Lambertville's main street |
Murder aside, Lambertville is a lovely town with quaint
shops and restaurants, and as I mentioned above, a rich connection to the
Revolutionary War. According to a plaque on the grounds of the 1st Presbyterian
Church of Lambertville:
“On Christmas night, December 25th, 1776
at about 11:00pm, 7 miles south of this site General George Washington and the
Continental Army crossed into New Jersey and proceeded to change the tide of
the War with the 1st Battle of Trenton. Here in Coryell’s Ferry,
another crossing took place that night with Captain William Washington and
Subaltern James Monroe (Fifth President) who led a rearguard attachment of
mounted soldiers and cannon to protect the main Army’s rear flank.”
The plaque goes on to mention the founding of the
church 40 years later in1816 and was built on donated land by the Coryell and
Lambert families near the Coryell’s Ferry Ancient Burial Grounds. On his return
to the United States, the Marquis de Lafayette worshiped in the church on July
9, 1825 while visiting the Coryell family.
If you’re ever passing through New Jersey, plan to
spend an afternoon in Lambertville. I guarantee you’ll enjoy yourself, and
chances are, you won’t stumble upon any dead bodies.
Decoupage
Can Be Deadly
An Anastasia
Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 4
Anastasia and
her fellow American Woman editors are steaming mad when minutes before the
opening of a consumer show, they discover half their booth usurped by Bling!, their
publisher’s newest magazine. CEO Alfred Gruenwald is sporting new arm
candy—rapper-turned-entrepreneur and Bling! executive editor, the first-name-only
Philomena. During the consumer show, Gruenwald’s wife serves Philomena with an
alienation of affection lawsuit, but Philomena doesn’t live long enough to make
an appearance in court. She’s found dead days later, stuffed in the shipping
case that held Anastasia’s decoupage crafts. When Gruenwald makes cash-strapped
Anastasia an offer she can’t refuse, she wonders, does he really want to find
Philomena’s killer or is he harboring a hidden agenda?
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A Stitch To
Die For
An Anastasia
Pollack Crafting Mystery, Book 5
Ever since her husband died and left her
in debt equal to the gross national product of Uzbekistan, magazine crafts
editor and reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack has stumbled across one
dead body after another—but always in work-related settings. When a killer
targets the elderly nasty neighbor who lives across the street from her, murder
strikes too close to home. Couple that with a series of unsettling events days
before Halloween, and Anastasia begins to wonder if someone is sending her a
deadly message.
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