New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Interesting debut mystery, winner of 2011 First Crime Novel Competition. Set in 1796, a traveling weaver Will Rees, finds that his 14 year old son has run away to a Shaker village; Rees arrives there just as a young woman in the community is murdered, and remains to solve the puzzle. "Kuhns's quiet, well-crafted debut. . .poignantly captures the Shaker ethos of the period." (Publishers Weekly) SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 978-1250005533.