Historical Mystery Reveals Secrets of 1830s Ohio Village

Cover Her Body, A Singular Village Mystery

St. Louis, MO – October 1, 2011 – Eleanor Sullivan never knew her distant grandfather. He died in 1853, but she did grow up hearing family tales about how he led a beleaguered band of religious dissenters safely out of Germany to establish a village in the Ohio wilderness. Uncovering the beliefs and practices of this unusual group of believers inspired her to create a mystery series set in this sheltered world.

In Cover Her Body, A Singular Village Mystery, a 16-year-old girl is murdered because she’s pregnant, but the only person who suspects it wasn’t an accident is Adelaide, a young midwife, who worries that the remedy she gave the girl for a woman’s ailment caused her death.
Adelaide’s husband, Benjamin, fearful that they’ll be banned from the prosperous community,
forbids her from questioning the girl’s death. But a mistake she made years ago cost the life of a mother and her unborn babe, and Adelaide vowed to never let another mother die. Soon, though, she begins to suspect that her husband might be involved in the girl’s death. And the more she investigates, not only does she start to question her own faith and beliefs, but she finds herself attracted to an unlikely man in the community, a man who vowed to remain celibate. Then her questions alert the outside authorities and now this isolated community is invaded by the very society they had shunned.

About the Author
Eleanor Sullivan is an award-winning author of books for nurses as well as the Monika Everhardt medical mysteries. Holding both a nursing degree and a doctorate, she is a former dean of nursing and past president of the world’s largest nursing organization. Now she’s turned her attention to the past, crafting a series of historical mysteries set in the 19th century religious settlement of her ancestors. The stories feature a midwife and her cabinet-maker husband in the Northern Ohio village of Zoar. Cover Her Body is the first book in the series.

Cover Her Body, A Singular Village Mystery
www.EleanorSullivan.com
$14.99/304 pages
Yesteryear Press, An Imprint of Wyatt-MacKenzie

Publisher Contact: Nancy Cleary nancy@wymacpublishing.com
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Author Contact: Eleanor Sullivan
eleanor@EleanorSullivan.com
314.692.2580