Daniel Plainway: Or The Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League

Great fun . . . escapists will be charmed," enthused The New York Times about Van Reid's last outing. The Christian Science Monitor relishes his "lemonade-at-the-fair freshness that will delight readers of all ages . . . encouraging them to enjoy a good old-fashioned yarn." Here, for fans of page-turning but gentle fiction is his latest in this picaresque series.It's Christmastime in nineteenth-century Maine and Daniel Plainway makes it truly a season of good will. Portly, jovial Tobias Walton and his guileless companions in the Moosepath League are caught up in a rollicking adventure with a panoply of vivid, charming characters whose paths cross that of country lawyer Daniel Plainway. When Mr. Plainway learns that the stolen portrait of a deceased friend has been recovered and that her lost son may still be alive, he begins a search that leads him to the kidnapped boy and several life-changing experiences.Van Reid is the author of Cordelia Underwood (a New York Times 1998 Notable Book) and Mollie Peer. His family has lived in Maine since the eighteenth century, and for the last ten years he has been assistant manager at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta.