War Veteran Mysteries

Eight months after the showdown with the domestic terrorist group that nearly cost him his life, Danny Coogan, a Montana Fish and Game Officer, faces a new threat to his community—and his career. It starts with a dead steer. Which happens to be near the body of a dead rancher. Both of which are on the Dead Horse Indian Reservation. Soon, Danny, the Tribal Police, the local Sheriff’s Department, and a US Marshal are pressed into action. Danny’s connections to the Rez draw him into the murder case and plant him firmly in the crosshairs of the killers. Another victim is discovered, ...

Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling series London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to...

The gripping story of a Vietnam vet whose secret past threatens his family, career, and honor, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island. He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But sixteen years...

He carried a secret sewn into his jacket for seventy-four years. His granddaughter has six weeks to learn why. When Ray Voss dies at ninety-five in a quiet Portland apartment, he leaves behind an ordered life: alphabetized spices, a Purple Heart in a shoebox, and a daughter who stopped asking questions decades ago. Then a parcel arrives from a veterans' service office. Inside is the field jacket he wore across the Pacific, and sewn into its lining, two documents he never showed a living soul: an unsent letter dated May 12, 1945, and a water-ruined military form bearing a name in his own ...

The sky over the 1888 American frontier was not supposed to look like this. When a storm of impossible colors and sound descends upon the Great Plains, it leaves nothing but splintered homes and shattered lives in its wake. It is not an act of God. It is something else entirely. Three strangers emerge from the wreckage: a young woman fleeing a suffocating future, a haunted Civil War veteran who long ago retreated from the world, and a fast-talking huckster whose charms are useless in a world scraped clean. Forced into a fragile alliance, their fight for survival has only just begun. The ...

He offered her protection. She demanded freedom. Their most dangerous bargain was love. Widowhood gave Catherine Vale, Countess of Hartwell, something marriage never did—control over her own life. So when her investigation into a ruthless blackmail network leads her to the isolated Blackthorn Hall, she has no intention of surrendering that freedom to its formidable master. Sebastian Blackthorn, Marquess of Ravenscroft, is scarred, reclusive and fiercely protective of the secrets hidden within his family’s chained west wing. He wants Catherine safely away from his estate. She intends to ...

He came to Southport to disappear. She sees the world without sight, but she sees him. Ty Brady is running from ghosts he can't outrun. Haunted by a sacrifice he'll never forget and a past that refuses to stay buried, he steps off a bus in the quiet coastal town of Southport, North Carolina, hoping the salt air and the steady rhythm of the tides will silence the chaos inside him. Then he meets Bree. Blind since a devastating accident that stole her parents and her sight, Bree Barlow has learned to navigate life through sound, touch, and instinct. She doesn't need eyes to sense the pain Ty ...

A sweeping multigenerational American epic that weaves together historical mystery, mythic storytelling, and urgent contemporary questions about who gets to tell our stories. ★ DEBUT NOVEL ★ In 1867, Irish Civil War veteran Eoinn Seeley leads six fellow immigrants through the American West searching for a place to establish a home for their families. Along the way they rescue an orphan girl, Sam King, and together establish Crystal Village in Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains—a utopian mining community that becomes one of the most progressive settlements in the American West. With cutting-...

T. Boo returned to the Colorado mountains expecting peace… but what he found had been buried for over a century. When former Special Ops Leader T. Boo returns to the Colorado Mountains, he discovers a legacy of love and courage tied to Anna Riley, a schoolteacher from Louisiana. As they face old family secrets and modern-day threats, they must navigate a journey that spans generations and find a bond that can withstand the test of time.

Delve into twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by American master and author of Winter's Bone. Daniel Woodrell was able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation—both material and...

A thriller book set in the small city of Millersville during the 1950s. Tal Rose arrives in Millersville with a purpose: to recover a hidden sum of sixty thousand dollars that was buried by his fellow POW, Timmy Naylor, before his death. The search for the money leads Tal to cross paths with various townspeople, including George Naylor, Timmy's troubled brother, and Fitzmartin, another former POW who is now a dangerous and unpredictable man. The quest for the hidden money soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit, violence, and deep-seated personal conflicts. Tal's journey is not only about...

NISH is a historical novel based on the life of Abraham Dionysius Chenault, a minister and physician from Lincoln County, Georgia, who lived from the 1830s-1880s. Nish, as folks called him, is perhaps best-known for being tortured by a fanatical Union general in his search for the booty from the robbery of a wagon train of gold following the Civil War in the summer of 1865. The beloved planter was an outspoken supporter of secession and a popular preacher at Methodist camp meetings, despite lacking formal religious training. After relocating to Northeast Georgia, Chenault became a ...

From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice. Winner of the Hammett Prize It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has...

From New York Times bestselling author Pete Hamill, preeminent chronicler of New York City, comes the story of 24 hours in the lives of a kaleidoscope of characters. In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of...

In the early spring morning light, shortly after seven o’clock, the body looked like a pile of debris covered by brown and black leaves left over from the previous autumn. A decorated war hero with severe amnesia sustained twelve years before, Clifford Dumont has remained lost in the middle of his life until unexpected events challenge him to confront his suppressed fears and the black wall of his past. When he finds the dead body of his co-worker, Jean-Paul, at a national historical battlefield, Clifford is jarred out of his day-to-day routines. His complacency is further challenged by ...

Vietnam: How I got there, what I did there, and the price I paid for being there. Lt. John L. Wilton Every combat vet has a story. That story is true to him. However, it is almost assuredly made up of truth, imagination, hearsay, other people's stories and dreams both good and bad. Nevertheless, through the fog of war, they have become his story. These are my memories, take them as you see fit, I make no apologies or excuses for my conduct, or for that of my men. Believe what you want, dismiss what you choose. Blessing to those that served in Vietnam and to hell with those who spat on us ...

From the creators of Smallville and Into the Badlands comes an action-packed "triple feature" debut thriller about a war veteran and CIA officer in the 1960s swept up into a cat and mouse game with enormous, world-altering consequences where Hitler may still be alive (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York...

A nearly forgotten war seared in the memory of veterans and their loved-ones; a long-ago romance between star-crossed lovers; and two mysterious deaths, one of an American soldier and the other of a murdered friend will challenge Private Investigator Aaron Gregory’s expert investigating skills. His odyssey will take him to exotic, tropical Vietnam and then find him crisscrossing the heartland of America, searching for the truth.

After the brutal murder of a Korean War veteran, Fernandez’s investigation uncovers a malignant injustice, a massacre of innocent Korean civilians and a government cover-up.

Overcome by despair after a trauma when she was 16, Sarita Taylor has spent the past 10 years isolated and lonely aboard her beloved RMS Queen Mary. Fearful of outsiders, she dedicates her time to managing The Secret Spice Cafe, now an award-winning restaurant. Until Luca Miceli, a man with a dark past, steps on board. Patricia V. Davis deftly spins past and present, mystery and magic, into a potent story of passionate longing and family tragedy all at once.