Death of a Mill Girl — Clyde Linsley

Josiah Beede, war hero and confidant of Andrew Jackson, has moved to New Hampshire, eager to leave the horrors of the battlefield behind him -- only to discover that death isn't an enemy he can escape...

It is the fall of 1836 in New Hampshire, and the body of a beautiful young woman has been discovered on the farm of retired lawyer and military hero Josiah Beede. Asked by the local sheriff to assist in the murder investigation, Josiah -- who encountered more than his share of death on the battlefield fighting alongside President Andrew Jackson -- agrees to help unravel the mystery of the woman's death. His search for a murderer takes him to a Manchester cotton mill, into the chilling new world of industry and manufacture, where young women work in slavelike conditions. It is here that Josiah must lure a killer out of hiding before another innocent is murdered -- or the wrong suspect is hanged...