A Necessary Death

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In this cozy historical mystery an impoverished widow and a surly constable work together to figure out what happened to the dead man in the tavern privy.</span></p><p></p><p>With Penelope Corbitt in the kitchen the tavern will never be the same.</p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Plucky young widow Penelope Corbitt must solve a murder help the town's innkeeper/constable bring order to his shambles of a crossroads tavern and dodge a life of grim servitude under the rule of her arrogant brother-in-law. She navigates racial social and cultural barriers in tackling these challenges and the reader is carried along on her earnest quest.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Author Karsten known for meticulous research avoids burdening the crisp narrative with irrelevant historical details but the ones she includes are dead accurate. Readers who delight in well-written historical fiction will feel they have really stepped into colonial America. This book is a great read from Chapter One to the end.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Larry F. Sommers best-selling author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Price of Passage</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Izzy Strikes Gold!</em></p><p></p><p>Paperback 272 pages</p><p>Includes several 18th century tavern food recipes</p>