Hearts and Bones
Hannah Trevor, an implacable widow and midwife, who now lives with her aunt since the death of her children and the abandonment of her Loyalist husband, investigates the rape and murder of a young woman in the Maine town of Rufford. Her former--married--lover, and the father of her remaining child, is one of the men accused of the crime. The depiction of the community is difficult and heart-wrenching, as it slowly dissolves from poverty and despair. ...
