Michael Stoddard American Revolution Thrillers
For ten years, an execution hid murder. Then Michael Stoddard came to town.
Bearing a dispatch from his commander in coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, redcoat Lieutenant Michael Stoddard arrives in Hillsborough in February 1781 in civilian garb. He expects to hand a letter to a courier working for Lord Cornwallis, then ride back to Wilmington the next day. Instead, Michael is greeted by the courier’s freshly murdered corpse, a chilling trail of clues leading back to an execution ten years earlier, and a sheriff with a fondness for framing innocents—and plans to deliver Michael up to his nemesis, a psychopathic British officer.
Awards:
Suspense Magazine “Best of 2011”
Sample Review:
“Driven by a desire to see justice done, no matter what guise it must take, [Michael Stoddard] is both sympathetic and interesting.” — Motherlode
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A Hostage to Heritage
A boy kidnapped for ransom. And a madman who didn’t
bargain on Michael Stoddard’s tenacity.
Spring 1781. The American Revolution enters its
seventh grueling year. In Wilmington, North Carolina, redcoat investigator
Lieutenant Michael Stoddard expects to round up two miscreants before Lord
Cornwallis’s army arrives for supplies. But his quarries’ trail crosses with
that of a criminal who has abducted a high-profile English heir. Michael’s
efforts to track down the boy plunge him into a twilight of terror from radical
insurrectionists, whiskey smugglers, and snarled secrets out of his own past in
Yorkshire.
Awards:
Indie Book of the Day Award
Sample Review:
“Suzanne Adair is on top of her game with this
one.” — Jim Chambers
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Mysteries of the American Revolution
Paper Woman
She expected the redcoats to solve her father’s murder. The redcoats and her father had other plans.
In early June 1780, the village of Alton, Georgia, is rocked by the triple murder of the town printer and one of his associates, both outspoken patriots, and a Spanish assassin. Alton’s redcoats are in no hurry to seek justice for the murdered men. The printer and his buddies have stirred up trouble for the garrison. But the printer’s widowed daughter, Sophie Barton, wants justice for her father. Under suspicion from the redcoats, Sophie sets out on a harrowing journey to find the truth about her father — a journey that plunges her into a hornet’s nest of terror, treachery, and international espionage.
Awards:
Patrick D. Smith Literature Award recipient
Sample Review:
“…a swashbuckling good mystery yarn!” — The Wilmington Star-News
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The Blacksmith’s Daughter
The patriots wanted her husband dead. So did the redcoats. She took issue with both.
In the blistering Georgia summer of 1780, Betsy Sheridan uncovers evidence that her shoemaker husband, known for his loyalty to King George, is smuggling messages to a patriot-sympathizing, multinational spy ring based in the Carolinas. When he vanishes into the heart of military activity, in Camden, South Carolina, Betsy follows him, as much in search of him as she is in search of who she is and where she belongs. But battle looms between Continental and Crown forces. The spy ring is plotting multiple assassinations. And Betsy and her unborn child become entangled in murder and chaos.
Sample Review:
“Adair holds the reader enthralled with constant action, spine-tingling suspense, and superb characterization…” — Midwest Book Review
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Camp Follower
A deadly assignment. A land poisoned by treachery and battle. She plunged in headfirst.
Late in 1780, the publisher of a loyalist magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina offers an amazing assignment to Helen Chiswell, his society page writer. Pose as the widowed, gentlewoman sister of a British officer in the Seventeenth Light Dragoons, travel to the encampment of the British Legion in the Carolina backcountry, and write a feature on Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton. But Helen’s publisher has secret reasons for sending her into danger. And because Helen, a loyalist, has ties to a family the redcoats suspect as patriot spies, she comes under suspicion of a brutal, brilliant British officer. At the bloody Battle of Cowpens, Helen must confront her past to save her life.
Awards:
Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Historical Mystery/Suspense nominee
Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction nominee
Sample Review:
“Adair wrote another superb story.” — Armchair Interviews
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