First Paragraph, Tuesday Teaser -- The Midwife's Tale

Every Tuesday, Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the first paragraph of her current read. Anyone can join in. Go to Diane's website for the image and share the first paragraph of the current book you are reading.

This book is getting a lot of buzz so I picked it up -- The Midwife's Tale by Sam Thomas. But what I didn't know is that it's labeled "A Mystery." I don't usually read mysteries, but maybe I only mean mysteries with traditional detectives or other sleuths. I also rarely read books by men. Is that sexist of me? I'm still going to try it.
Here's the intro set in June 1644, York, England:

On the night I delivered Mercy Harris of a bastard child, the King's soldiers burned the city's suburbs and fell back within its walls to await the rebel assault.

Also this week is Teaser Tuesdays. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Open to a random page of your current read and share a teaser sentence from somewhere on that page. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
Here's my teaser from page 56:

"My lady, it was..." She groped for words. "I thought I saw the man from that night, the soldier," she whispered. "In the Shambles, peering at me from an alley."

What do you think? Would you keep reading?