Edith Maxwell

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Lauren Rousseau Mystery

1 - Speaking of Murder (Jul-2020)
2 - Murder on the Bluffs (Aug-2020)

A Local Foods Mystery

1 - A Tine to Live, a Tine to Die (Jun-2013)
2 - 'Til Dirt Do Us Part (Jun-2014)
3 - Farmed and Dangerous (Jun-2015)
4 - Murder Most Fowl (Jun-2016)
5 - Mulch Ado about Murder (May-2017)

A Quaker Midwife Mystery

1 - Delivering the Truth (Apr-2016)
2 - Called to Justice (Apr-2017)
3 - Turning the Tide (Apr-2018)
4 - Charity's Burden (Apr-2019)
5 - Judge Thee Not (Sep-2019)
6 - Taken Too Soon (Sep-2020)
7 - A Changing Light (Apr-2021)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Just Dial a Number

  • Game of Truth

  • Reduction in Force

    In "Reduction in Force," a short story, software engineer Jackie Rousseau loses her job to outsourcing, as do several others in her group. Their manager doesn't seem to care. Jackie manages to stay afloat financially but she sees the damage the reduc...

  • Yatsuhashi for Lance

    In this short story Elise Chase, about to start a prestigious graduate program in Baltimore, is winding down a quiet life in Japan, teaching English and studying Japanese as she lives with her Navy boyfriend. Their rakish friend Lance flirts with Eli...

  • A Tine to Live, a Tine to Die

    A Local Foods Mystery - 1

    It’s harvest time in Westbury, Massachusetts, and novice farmer Cameron Flaherty hopes to make a killing selling organic produce. But when a killer strikes on her property, her first foray into the world of organic farming yields a bumper crop of l...

  • Just Desserts for Johnny

    In this short story, Yvonne Maupin is delighted when she meets a publisher interested in her literary novel, Souls by the Bay. When the deal goes sour, and she learns Johnny Sorbetto is a literary thief, she plots and carries out a satisfying revenge...

  • 'Til Dirt Do Us Part

    A Local Foods Mystery - 2

    The produce is local--and so is the crime--when long-simmering tensions lead to murder following a festive dinner on Cam Flaherty's farm. It'll take a sleuth who knows the lay of the land to catch this killer. But no one ever said Cam wasn't willing ...

  • An Idea for Murder

    No story, no paycheck. In this short story, crime fiction writer Dorothy finally hits on an idea for murder for her next story, which turns out to be fatal in real life, too. The story originally appeared under the pen name Tace Baker in Burning Brid...

  • Fire in Carriagetown

    In this short story, when Quaker mill worker Faith Bailey encounters an arsonist who burns down the town's carriage industry in 1888 Massachusetts, she uses her smarts and her faith to track down the killer....



  • The Importance of Blood

    Jody and Katie. Identical twins but so different. They share the same blood, the same DNA, but not the same fingerprints, ambition, or attachment to family. Which turns out to be lethal in the end. In this short story, Katie’s devotion to family al...

  • The Stonecutter

  • Farmed and Dangerous

    A Local Foods Mystery - 3

    Snow is piling up in Westbury, Massachusetts, and Cam Flaherty’s organic farm has managed to survive the harsh New England winter. Unfortunately murder seems to be the crop in season… Cam is finding the New Year just as hectic as the old one. ...

  • Delivering the Truth

    A Quaker Midwife Mystery - 1

    Quaker midwife Rose Carroll discovers dark secrets in 1888 Massachusetts For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newbor...

  • Murder Most Fowl

    A Local Foods Mystery - 4

    Spring may be just around the corner, but a cold-blooded killer has put the big chill on the residents of Westbury, Massachusetts. It looks like organic farmer-turned-sleuth Cam Flaherty will have to set aside her seedlings for the time being as she ...

  • Called to Justice

    A Quaker Midwife Mystery - 2

    Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is enjoying the 1888 Independence Day evening fireworks with her beau when a teenaged Quaker mill girl is found shot dead. After a former slave and fellow Quaker is accused of the murder, Rose delves into the crime, convin...

  • The Tragic Death of Mrs. Edna Fogg

    in Malice Domestic 12: Murder Most Historical

  • Mulch Ado about Murder

    A Local Foods Mystery - 5

    It’s been a hot, dry spring in Westbury, Massachusetts. As organic farmer Cam Flaherty waits for much-needed rain, storm clouds of mystery begin to gather. Once again, it’s time to put away her sun hat and put on her sleuthing cap . . . May ha...

  • Turning the Tide

    A Quaker Midwife Mystery - 3

    A suffragist is murdered in Quaker midwife Rose Carroll's Massachusetts town Excitement runs high during Presidential election week in 1888. The Woman Suffrage Association plans a demonstration and movement leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton comes to t...

  • A Divination of Death

    in Malice Domestic 13: Mystery Most Geographical



  • Charity's Burden

    A Quaker Midwife Mystery - 4

    Quaker midwife Rose Carroll seeks the true cause of a young mother's death in turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds...

  • Sushi Lessons

    in Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible

    The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 36 original tales with a culinary bent! Included are: A Cup of Tea, by Parnell Hall Brown Recluse, by Marcia Adair A Slice of Heaven,, by La...

  • Judge Thee Not

    A Quaker Midwife Mystery - 5

    Elegant and well-crafted, rich in period detail, Edith Maxwell's latest foray is a stunner! —Susanna Calkins, author of the award-winning Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy MysteriesQuaker midwife Rose Carroll must fight bias and blind a...

  • Speaking of Murder

    A Lauren Rousseau Mystery - 1

    In this suspenseful mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a startling murder exposes dark dealings in a quiet New England town . . .When a talented student asks her to endorse his controversial thesis on race and language, linguistics...

  • Murder on the Bluffs

    A Lauren Rousseau Mystery - 2

    In the second Lauren Rousseau Mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a grisly murder stirs up long-buried secrets surrounding the disappearance and death of Lauren's father . . .As a bitter controversy rages over a secretive local land...

  • Taken Too Soon

    A Quaker Midwife Mystery - 6

    A new book in the Agatha Award-winning series by Edith Maxwell!Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must turn her investigative skills on her own family when a young woman's murder stuns a New England community . . .Following a long betrothal, midwife Rose Ca...

  • A Changing Light

    A Quaker Midwife Mystery - 7

    In a new mystery from Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, midwife Rose Carroll confronts a killer on the cusp of a new age . . .As the nineteenth century nears an end, midwife Rose Carroll can see signs of progress and change everywhere in her...

  • A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries

    One of the rising stars of the last several years has been author Edith Maxwell, who also writes as Maddie Day. Her works in traditional mystery have included a number of series characters, including Rose Carroll, a Quaker midwife of the 19th century...

Award-Winning Books by Edith Maxwell

Charity's Burden
2019 Agatha Award -- Historical


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edith Maxwell has published 27 books.

Edith Maxwell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Edith Maxwell, Just Dial a Number, was published in January 1971.

Yes. Edith Maxwell has 3 series.
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