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The Glassmaker''s Wife

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By (author): Lee Martin

In August of 1844, a man named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois, and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning.

The suspect? His wife, Betsey.

The chief witnesses against her? A hired girl, Eveline Deal, and the local apothecary, James Logan. The evidence? Eveline claims she saw Betsey put a pinch of white powder in Leonards coffee.

Betsey Reed, a woman who dabbles in herbal healing, is known about town as a witch. As the gossip and the circumstantial evidence mount, Betsey finds herself under the shadow of a trialand a noose.

A historical crime inspired by the true story of Betsey Reed, for fans of The Trial of Lizzie Borden and The Good Sister, Lee Martins latest weaves a tale of a pinch of white powder, a scorched paper, a community hungry for a villain, and a young girls first taste of revengebut above all, of the contradictions and imperfections of the human heart.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: Dzanc Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781950539482

About Lee Martin

Lee Martin is the author of the novels The Bright Forever a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; River of Heaven; Quakertown; Break the Skin; Late One Night and Yours Jean. A new memoir Gone the Hard Road came out in 2021. His other memoirs are From Our House Turning Bones and Such a Life.  He is also the author of two short story collections The Least You Need to Know and The Mutual UFO Network. He is the co-editor of Passing the Word: Writers on Their Mentors and the author of a craft book. Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Harpers Ms. Creative Nonfiction The Georgia Review The Kenyon Review Fourth Genre River Teeth The Southern Review Prairie Schooner Glimmer Train The Best American Essays and The Best American Mystery Stories. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University where he is a College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor and where he was also the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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