Book. 129 p. Nonfiction.
by Carol McCabe Booker
 
The Farmer's Wife is the third  in author Carol Booker's nonfiction series exploring historic events in 19th and early 20th century Southern Maryland. It follows best-selling Waterman's Widow (2023) and Cove Point on the Chesapeake  (2021), all published by New Bay Books.  "In 1877, a murder was committed in a field in the Southern Maryland village of Friendship along Chesapeake Bay. Who would want to kill a young mother who had just picked a basket of spring cabbage leaves to cook for her husband and children? Carol Booker delves into the events surrounding this devastating crime," writes Joan Kilmon, retired Calvert County librarian, on the back cover.