The Mission that Rocked Olde Plimoth: An Olympia Brown Mystery

Olympia Brown Mystery #10

by Judith Campbell

No. 10 in the Olympia Brown Mysteries. Plymouth, Massachusetts, America's home town, is shaken to its colonial core when Mayflower descendent and well-heeled member of the community, Thomas Bradford, is found dead in the wrong bed. As in any other town, there are secrets better left buried. But it isn't long when the Rev. Olympia Brown finds herself dead center in an unholy firestorm and trying to keep her balance on the horns of a curious ethical dilemma.

203 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 16, 2016

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Olympia Brown books are kind of like wearing your pajamas and house shoes, and cozying up under an afghan. This is the fifth or sixth one of her books that I have read. I love the characters, I know to expect some social issue to be dealt with, and UU values will prevail. This time Judith Campbell takes on the sex trade...no spoiler here. It begins on page 1. However, as the mystery unfolds, Campbell has the reader consider who is the perpetraitor and who should be arrested...and what is the way to respond as a church when someone who is not so nice dies. None of these questions are easy. Olympia deals with it all, while petting her cats, loving Frederick, and cooking with good food with Father Jim....and sipping wine.

[Fiona Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The latest in the Olympia Brown series and this time the focus is on sex workers but from them having agency rather than always being victims. It’s an interesting take on a very human story. The running diary is great - but would love to have that as a separate book as I forget what’s happened across all the novels!