I’d like to share some books to enjoy this spring. Many of the titles are available at the Peterborough Public Library, Take Cover Books, Happenstance, Chapters or online.

“Liberty Street” by Heather Marshall is a fascinating novel that delves into the little-known history of the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females in Toronto, fictionalized as the Mercer Women’s Prison in the book, where women were sent on the pretext of being “incorrigible”: those suffering from postpartum depression, those who were queer, those who rebelled against their parents, were pregnant and more. When Emily Radcliffe, a reporter at Chatelaine magazine, comes by a note from an inmate crying for help, she goes undercover to find out what the conditions are really like inside so that she can write an expose.

In a later timeline, detective Rachel Mackenzie tries to find out the identity of a body found in unmarked grave, and uncovers truths about what happened in........

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