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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Before the town had secrets, it had systems.Berlin, New Hampshire, 1974. The mills are running, the stacks breathe over the valley, and the Androscoggin carries the weight of everything built along its banks.Twenty-two-year-old Julie Moreau knows the city by its working parts: mill whistles, shift changes, bakery windows glowing against dirty snow, motel rooms that never stay clean for long, and the back stairs, side doors, and alleys women learn to notice before anyone teaches them why.Julie cleans offices, boardinghouse rooms, and the places respectable men leave dirty. She keeps a blue notebook because paper is safer than speaking, and because in a town built on ledgers, routes, debts, and silence, writing something down may be the only way to survive it.Then women begin vanishing into explanations.A bus ticket south. A locked room at the North Star Motel. A missing office key. A yellow ribbon near the lower river. A girl in a green coat who knows too much and can barely speak at all.Each clue seems small enough to dismiss. Families have reputations to protect. Men with money have friends in the right offices. Winter makes accidents easy to believe.But Julie is watching.Her search leads through Main Street bakeries, church basements, boardinghouse kitchens, mill offices, motel ledgers, winter roads, and the old boom piers along the Androscoggin-remnants of the river's logging past, when timber moved along routes older than the crimes later built on top of them.Before the Burn Line moved women, it moved wood. Before it became evidence, it was infrastructure. Before anyone called it evil, it was useful.As Julie follows the trail, she uncovers something larger than one disappearance: a hidden system built from money, favors, debt, access, and official records men thought they controlled. Every locked room has a reason. Every missing page has a history. Every road points somewhere, even the ones no one admits exist.But Berlin has another map.North Country women keep keys in flour tins. Warnings in recipe boxes. Proof in coat linings, library files, and rooms men were never meant to enter. They pass names through kitchens, mark danger with color, and remember what the official story leaves out.Julie is not a detective. She is a cleaner, a daughter, a witness, and a young woman learning that being underestimated can be dangerous in both directions.The closer she gets to the truth, the more the city tightens around her: a police officer with a careful voice, a motel clerk who knows more than she says, a priest who realizes too late how concern can become a leash, a powerful family with old debts to hide, and Victor Arsenault, a young man learning that a story does not have to be true to become the record.On a January night when firelight hits the ice, Julie must decide what can be saved, what must be hidden, and what must be changed before the men chasing her understand what she has moved beyond their reach.No witnesses means us.The Burn Line is a standalone historical crime thriller and prequel to the world of Androscoggin After Dark: a dark, atmospheric North Country story of mill-town secrets, missing women, corrupted records, river history, and one young woman determined not to let the official version be the only story that survives. Berlin, NH, 1974: cleaner Julie Moreau follows missing women, hidden records, and a dangerous river route into a system built on debt, silence, and power. Independent prequel to the Androscoggin After Dark serie Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. It wasn't witchcraft. It was arsenic.A wife prepares supper. A nurse measures medicine. A boardinghouse keeper tends an ailing guest. These were the ordinary acts that kept a household alive. They also placed food, medicine, and vulnerable people in the hands of someone everyone had learned to trust.What happened when that trust became the first obstacle to recognizing a crime?In Nurtured to Death, public historian Erica R. Buteau returns to the records behind some of New England's most unsettling cases involving women, poison, and deaths within trusted households. Beginning with a troubling investigation in Lancaster, New Hampshire, she follows the evidence through sickrooms, boardinghouses, cemeteries, newspaper columns, and courtrooms, asking what the surviving record can actually tell us.The journey includes Hannah Kinney, Lydia Sherman, Sarah Jane Robinson, Jane Toppan, Amy Archer-Gilligan, and Mary Cowan, alongside less familiar women whose stories have been overshadowed by more famous names. Some confessed. Some were convicted. Others were acquitted, were never brought to trial, or remained under suspicion long after the legal proceedings ended. Their cases cannot be reduced to a single motive, a convenient label, or a confidently repeated body count.Poison could resemble disease. A death might be attributed to an ordinary illness until another followed, and then another. By the time neighbors, physicians, or relatives began asking questions, the evidence might already be buried. Exhumations and chemical examinations could expose an alarming pattern, but establishing that poison was present was not always the same as proving who had administered it.Drawing on contemporary newspapers, trial accounts, vital records, genealogical research, and other surviving sources, Buteau examines how caregiving created access and how ideas about women shaped the response to suspected violence. Competence could become suspicious. Calm could be read as cruelty. A marriage, an inheritance, an argument, or a reputation could acquire new meaning after a death.Yet suspicion could also outrun the facts. An accusation might harden into biography. A newspaper's certainty could survive an acquittal. Later accounts could merge possible victims with documented deaths until repetition gave an uncertain story the appearance of settled history.Buteau follows those claims backward, distinguishing allegations from charges, charges from convictions, and documented evidence from later retelling. She returns attention to the people whose deaths too often became supporting details in someone else's notoriety, and leaves unresolved questions open where the record cannot support a clear answer.The book also considers the stories Americans tell about notorious women and includes a contemporary comparison with the Lindsay Clancy case. That discussion examines the continuing influence of assumptions about motherhood, mental illness, and female violence on public reaction, while preserving the distinction between public judgment and legal findings.Part historical investigation and part examination of how crime stories are made, Nurtured to Death explores the uneasy relationship between care and power, intimacy and danger, evidence and reputation. It asks how people recognized harm inside places they believed were safe, and what was lost when a complicated history became a familiar legend.For readers of historical true crime, women's history, and New England history, this is a deeply researched account of households under suspicion, forgotten victims, and the distance between what happened and what history remembers. From nineteenth-century sickrooms to modern courtrooms, Nurtured t Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. A compassionate, practical survival guide for parents helping adult children through medical, mental-health, addiction, legal, financial, or family crises while protecting their own well-being and boundaries. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 393.

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. From nineteenth-century sickrooms to modern courtrooms, Nurtured to Death examines women, poison, and the betrayal of caregiving, separating documented evidence from accusation and legend in New England's unsettling history of murder. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Four seasons. One river. A year of secrets coming to the surface.In New Hampshire's North Country, the Androscoggin has always been good at keeping what people give it.Until the winter a body comes through the ice.What follows reaches far beyond one death. Old names surface. Women who disappeared become harder to explain away. Records do not match the stories people have been telling for years, and places everyone thought they understood begin to look different once someone starts asking the right questions.The snow melts, the roads soften, summer engines tear through the woods, and by fall fire is burning across black water. Through every season, the same truth keeps pushing its way forward. Someone counted on distance, silence, fear, and time to bury what happened here.They did not count on the people who would refuse to leave it buried.At the heart of the River Series are four women whose lives become tangled with the secrets running beneath their towns. Maura Vale never learned how to look away. Sienna Lavoie knows what it means to live with unanswered questions. Claire Caron follows evidence into places most people would rather avoid. Carrie Walsh understands that sometimes the smallest detail is the one that breaks everything open.Their stories unfold among deputies, first responders, investigators, families, neighbors, old motel rooms, back roads, culverts, ATV trails, riverbanks, and the deep woods of northern New Hampshire. There is danger here, but there is also love, loyalty, stubbornness, dark humor, and the kind of people who show up when it matters.Androscoggin After Dark: The River Series Omnibus brings together the complete four-book series in one newly edited volume:When the River FreezesWhen the River ThawsWhen the River RunsWhen the River BurnsThis omnibus also includes the final series epilogue, Something That Held, bringing the River Series full circle and giving its characters the ending they earned.For readers who love atmospheric romantic suspense, interconnected mysteries, strong women, slow-burn relationships, small-town secrets, and crime fiction rooted deeply in place.Small towns keep secrets. Rivers keep the rest. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1319.…

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Neu. Four seasons. One river. A year of secrets coming to the surface.In New Hampshire's North Country, the Androscoggin has always been good at keeping what people give it.Until the winter a body comes through the ice.What follows reaches far beyond one death. Old names surface. Women who disappeared become harder to explain away. Records do not match the stories people have been telling for years, and places everyone thought they understood begin to look different once someone starts asking the right questions.The snow melts, the roads soften, summer engines tear through the woods, and by fall fire is burning across black water. Through every season, the same truth keeps pushing its way forward. Someone counted on distance, silence, fear, and time to bury what happened here.They did not count on the people who would refuse to leave it buried.At the heart of the River Series are four women whose lives become tangled with the secrets running beneath their towns. Maura Vale never learned how to look away. Sienna Lavoie knows what it means to live with unanswered questions. Claire Caron follows evidence into places most people would rather avoid. Carrie Walsh understands that sometimes the smallest detail is the one that breaks everything open.Their stories unfold among deputies, first responders, investigators, families, neighbors, old motel rooms, back roads, culverts, ATV trails, riverbanks, and the deep woods of northern New Hampshire. There is danger here, but there is also love, loyalty, stubbornness, dark humor, and the kind of people who show up when it matters.Androscoggin After Dark: The River Series Omnibus brings together the complete four-book series in one newly edited volume:When the River FreezesWhen the River ThawsWhen the River RunsWhen the River BurnsThis omnibus also includes the final series epilogue, Something That Held, bringing the River Series full circle and giving its characters the ending they earned.For readers who love atmospheric romantic suspense, interconnected mysteries, strong women, slow-burn relationships, small-town secrets, and crime fiction rooted deeply in place.Small towns keep secrets. Rivers keep the rest. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1488.…

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