A review by nursenell
North Star Conspiracy by Miriam Grace Monfredo

5.0

This is an excellent book set in the mid 1850's in Seneca Falls, NY. It is primarily about the underground railroad. Glynis Tyron, the town librarian who has been working for the right of women to vote, has always felt slavery was a grave wrong. Until the issue hits close to home she hasn't become involved in the abolition movement because she is more comfortable obeying the law. When her landlady's son helps a young woman slave escape from VA Glynis becomes involved in helping her hide from the slave hunter. Meanwhile several people in Seneca Falls have been murdered, and their deaths seem to be involved with the slave hunter.

I thought the author did a very good job of making the reader feel as if you were there, hidden in a wagon's secret compartment, hidden inside a wall behind a bookcase, and hiding in plain sight dressed as a mourner complete with head coverings.