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\ n\"A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Mart ha Ballard\, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking m urder that unhinges her small community.
\nMaine\, 1789: The Kennebe c River freezes\, entombing a man in the ice. Martha Ballard is summoned t o examine the body and determine cause of death. As the local midwife and healer\, Martha is good at keeping secrets. Her diary is a record of every birth and death\, every murder and debacle that unfolds in the town of Ha llowell. In that diary she also documented the details of an alleged rape that occurred four months earlier. Now\, one of the men accused of that he inous attack has been found dead in the ice.
\nWhile Martha is certa in she knows what happened the night of the assault\, she suspects that th e two crimes are linked\, and that there is more to both cases than meets the eye. Over the course of one long\, hard winter\, as the trial nears\, and whispers and prejudices mount\, Martha&rsquo\;s diary lands at the cen ter of the scandal and threatens to tear both her family and her community apart.
\nIn her newest offering\, Ariel Lawhon brings to life a bra ve and compassionate unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less th an justice on behalf of those no one else would protect. The Frozen River is a thrilling\, tense\, and tender story of a remarkable woman who had th e courage to take a stand\, and in the process wrote herself into American history.\"
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