Civil War Mystery Fiction

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Once a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devastation of the War Between the States. But with a forced marriage and a desolate future on the horizon, her hopes are beginning to dwindle. When she discovers an encrypted note on a dying soldier, she seizes the opportunity to use it to deliver a message of her own. Instead, she’s mistaken for a spy and captured. Can she unravel a conspiracy before her secrets cost a man his life? The complete trilogy of exciting Accidental Spy novels.

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.

Julian Voss can't remember the first seven years of his life. Twenty years after federal agents rescued him from Sand Mesa—a desert cult where obedience was holy—Julian has built a careful existence as a journalist. But when an A.I. buried in a government black site begins speaking to him in riddles, the wall he's built around his missing memories starts to crack. As America slides toward algorithmic authoritarianism and dissenters begin vanishing, Julian discovers his forgotten childhood might hold the key to everything. The cult wasn't just indoctrinating children. They were building ...

This haunted house has ghosts, secrets… and a story that refuses to stay buried. When widower Richard Craft returns to his family’s historic Virginia home, he’s searching for peace—and maybe the spark to finish his long-delayed novel. Instead, he finds creaking floorboards, ghostly whispers, Civil War relics in the cellar, and a loyal Sheltie named Lincoln who never leaves his side. But the past in this house runs deep. As unsettling visions and strange events mount, Richard is drawn into an unlikely alliance: a determined paranormal researcher, a retired cop with a knack for ...

An accidental death, and the cover-up that follows, sparks a dark series of events that reverberates through the lives of four people who will never be the same again. When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck, a kill that could make the difference between meat for the winter and an...

A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.

Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the 19th century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history.

Tracks Beneath the Clay A story unearthed a legacy rewritten When a daughter uncovers her family's hidden past, she discovers a secret that could rewrite everything she thought she knew about herself. Janice only meant to fix up the old Georgia house. Instead, she finds a grave without a name, a letter never sent, and a hidden cellar that holds more than family silver. A century earlier, seventeen-year-old Natalie arrives at her aunt's plantation—a Northern girl sent south as punishment. Beneath the whitewashed columns and sweet tea, she encounters a cousin whose charm masks something far...

Lost in Yankee territory with no food, weapons, or horse, Will Jessup takes refuge in a barn. Injured and feverish, he buries himself in the hay and falls into a dreamless sleep. His slumber lasts right up until the screaming starts. The Dupré siblings are in the worst trouble of their lives. With Josie on the floor unconscious or dead, and Caleb tied to a chair, Rachel and Libby stand back-to-back facing a large man with a saber who circles them like a hungry wolf as his men watch with eager interest. Just as they think they’ve all breathed their last, an avenging angel in Confederate ...

"A Coming of age tale set in the antebellum South" When a young prodigy in 1850s Virginia begins to question the morality of slavery, will he have the fortitude to take action? Gideon Covington is embroiled in the bloody siege at Vicksburg during the Civil War and is not confident that he will survive the battle. He has therefore decided to reveal the extraordinary events that brought him here. Gideon’s tale begins when he is twelve years old. The boy is considered to be a genius and although he longs for a university education, he seems destined to remain in rural Virginia as he is heir ...

Past and present collide in a riveting tale of espionage, greed, and the high price of secrets buried beneath blood and gold. In the midst of the tumultuous American Civil War, the discovery of Montana gold in 1861 caught the attention of both the Union and the Confederacy. The precious metal, with its promise of immense wealth, became a tantalizing target for the warring factions, each seeking to bolster their financial resources and fuel their relentless war machines. Amidst this chaos, Mary Margaret Mills, a seasoned expert in the art of espionage, found herself at a breaking point, ...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk...

This explosive sixth installment in the Nick Lynch series thrusts readers into the heart of a nation divided. As a formidable coalition of right-wing militias united under the banner of The Committee launches a ferocious bid to rewrite America's future, Nick finds himself at the epicenter of the conflict. Reuniting with key allies, including the determined and resourceful Jenny McFadden, they face an unprecedented challenge of stopping a civil war ignited by decades of strife and differing ideologies. From the first page, Jenny and Nick step into roles destined to shape the course of ...

No one can talk to the dead...can they? Free man of color Benjamin January gets caught up in a strange, spiritual world that might lead to his own demise, as he hunts for a missing teenager in this gripping, atmospheric historical mystery. New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloë Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can’t say no.

Trouble comes in threes... One doomed love affair after another has made lovely Alex Walton swear off men. Now, she's determined to try something that maybe she can succeed at: a writing career. Little does she know that a chance meeting with a strikingly handsome stranger, a mysterious obelisk...

An Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a “fresh…twisty” (Michelle Richmond, New York Times bestselling author) historical mystery set in 19th-century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she...

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a crime. But apparently it does, and at the insistence of the Chekist secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the...

'One of the best historical crime series out there' Crime Review 'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' Sunday Times Summer, 1658, and the Republic may finally be safe: the combined Stuart and Spanish forces have been heavily defeated by the English and French armies on the coast of Flanders...

John Jakes, the author of over 60 books, including the eight-part Kent Family Chronicles, The North and South trilogy, and innumerable short stories of the American West, returns to the Civil War in the engrossing On Secret Service. The story of a war within a war on various levels—the North v...