Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: The Frozen River (2023) by Ariel Lawhon

Join fellow fiction enthusiasts to discuss critically acclaimed novels. This class focuses on The Frozen River (2023) by Ariel Lawhon. 

Written by the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène, this gripping historical mystery concerns a murder in a small close-knit community in Maine in 1789. The local midwife and healer Martha Ballard is called to determine the cause of death of a man entombed in the frozen Kennebec River. Privy to many secrets of those in the town of Hallowell, Martha keeps a detailed journal, replete with details of every birth and death as well as the alleged rape of the minister's wife by a colonel and the man found dead in the ice. As the rape trial approaches, Martha's diary lands her at the center of the scandal.