War Veteran Mysteries

Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffel bag. He's been trained to kill but was never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.

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, ...

Read the gripping story of a Vietnam vet whose secret past threatens his family, career, and honor, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold over 50 million copies worldwide, and is "a true master" (Dan Brown). He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an...

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-...

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.

A retired teacher is found dead in her Somerset home on a cold January night. At first glance, it is a routine unexplained death and a simple referral to the coroner, until a neighbour reports an unscheduled visit from an occupational therapist an hour before the body was discovered. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon is convinced the elderly woman has been strangled—a cause of death confirmed by the pathologist—and a murder investigation is launched.

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 ...

Chief Warrant Officer Gary O'Neal is no ordinary soldier. For nearly 40 years, he has fought America's enemies, becoming one of the greatest Warriors this nation has ever known. Part Native American, O'Neal was trained in both military combat and the ways of his Native people, combining his commitment to freedom with his respect for the enemy, his technical fighting skills with his fierce warrior spirit.

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...

A platoon of Marines and CIA operatives clash in a fight to the death with the drug lords and the Taliban, while in Washington, the president seeks a way out. This authentic war story vividly displays how a warrior must replenish his own moral courage and not allow ambition to coarsen his sense of decency.

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 ...

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...

In 1960, the frozen wilderness of Chicken, Alaska, becomes a deadly battleground when drifting cowboy Wyatt Peoples stumbles into a web of murder and greed. Fresh from the Korean War and seeking refuge in the goldfields near the Canadian border, Wyatt finds unexpected purpose working for the captivating Amy Crockett and her mining family. But when Amy's brother is found murdered and Wyatt becomes the prime suspect, he must use his law enforcement background to clear his name and protect the woman who's stolen his heart. As winter closes in and violence escalates in the tight-knit mining ...

Digger Browning's Christmas season is tinged with sadness. She had had a falling-out with her reporter friend Marty and she isn't sure they can fix it. He may want to leave Maple Grove and she is conflicted about whether family commitments will hold her back from joining him. To distract herself, Digger and her very pale Uncle Benjamin are sorting through boxes in the cellar of the Ancestral Sanctuary. They come across a carefully wrapped (but broken) ornament Uncle Benjamin's late wife, Clara, found and cherished many years ago. It had been made by the Meadow Mountain Ornament Factory, ...

A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting alone, an old album on his lap. Oblivious to the world around them, the two begin an unlikely conversation and together embark on a journey that stretches almost seven decades in length.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...