The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn is the April book pick for the We're Talkin' Books! Club meeting. Join in person at the Civic Center Library in the Board Room or via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/WTBLPL on Thursday, April 2 at 7 p.m.

Book Summary: Maine, 1789: The Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice. Martha Ballard is summoned to 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 Hallowell. 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 heinous attack has been found dead in the ice.

While Martha is certain she knows what happened the night of the assault, she suspects that the 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’s diary lands at the center of the scandal and threatens to tear both her family and her community apart. - the publisher

Hybrid Meeting on Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/WTBLPL & Civic Center Library Board Room, 1188 S. Livermore Ave., Livermore, CA