Two Crows Sorrow
Love and Death on the North Mountain

The novel ‘Two Crows Sorrow; Love and Death on the North Mountain’ by Laura Churchill Duke was presented at Dartmouth Book Exchange’s book club this week as a definite “Must Read” for locally Authored books. So I took the challenge and brought home it home with me to read. This Creative Historical N......more

This is a novelized version of events that took place in 1904, just up the road from where I live now in Nova Scotia. There was a murder, and a trial. Wasn't quite sure how much I would've appreciated learning about this tragic story if the setting wasn't so close by. The backstory drags a bit, but o......more

I have time to read about one book a year, and I am glad Two Crows Sorrow was the one! A gripping plot carved into the rugged landscape above the Annapolis Valley! The people and places came alive off the page. I felt part of this austere rural lifestyle for a short time - but certainly glad I'm not......more

For the first time in a long time I got lost in a book without being distracted by life. I started reading Two Crows Sorrow and knew right away I wouldn't want to put it down until the end. I could feel myself sweating in the hot crowded courthouse during the summer of 1904 wondering, like everyone......more

"Two Crows Sorrow" is the most compelling book I have read in a long while. Subtitled “Love and Death on the North Mountain,” it is based on the true story of Theresa McAuley Robinson of Burlington, Nova Scotia, and her second husband, who was charged with her murder in 1904. As stated on p 205, mur......more