Death of a Mill Girl

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...