Fall River

In 1833, a writer named Catharine Williams began working on a new book. She’d published books of poetry and about the Revolutionary War before, but this book was going to be different. It was going to be about a Methodist minister, a mill worker, and a murder.

Kate Dawson’s book is The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727618/the-sinner…).

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