A review by khornstein1
Delivering the Truth by Edith Maxwell

4.0

OK, so this is totally outside the usual genres that I read; I almost never read mysteries but I am reading novels about Quakers as I attempt to write my own. It's hard for me to judge this book against other mysteries and perhaps it's me--so many characters with so many similar traits (e.g. so many pregnant women, or women who've just given birth in one book) that I was constantly looking back to figure out who was who. Also, the action was nearly non-stop (again, maybe that's how mysteries are? Oh wait--I've read the Da Vinci Code--that's a mystery with non-stop action) and there was little narrative. I felt like I needed to breathe a bit. The positive: I grew to like Rose, even though her Quaker character seemed a tad modern, but I liked her enough that by the end, I was like, "so what happened to her next? Maybe I should read the next book!" I liked all the Quaker details, and the description of life in a Massachusetts town. There was something pleasant about the story: maybe that's why it's called "cozy." Cheers to Maxwell for combining mystery, Quakerism and midwifery in one novel!