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. Praise for Paper Woman, recipient of the Patrick D. Smith Literature Award from the Florida Historical Society: "...a swashbuckling good mystery yarn!" -- The Wilmington Star-News "It is no easy thing for a new author to create a character to whom the reader is immediately drawn, and who can carry off a storyline of this size and scope. Suzanne Adair has done that here." -- Spinetingler magazine "...an exhilarating story that will captivate the reader from beginning to end." -- The Midwest Book Review

Paper Woman

Literature & Fiction

Adair, Suzanne

Contemporary

Whittlers Bench Press

Deadly Occupation is Book 1 in the Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery series. If you like Diana Gabaldon, Bernard Cornwell, and Jim Butcher, then you’ll love this fast-paced, tension-filled detective novel.“Thick with intrigue and subplots to keep readers guessing.” — Caroline Clemmons, author of the “Kincaids” seriesA wayward wife, a weapons trafficker, and a woman with “second sight”—it’s a puzzle that would have daunted any investigator. But Michael Stoddard wasn’t just any investigator.Late January 1781, in coastal North Carolina, patriots flee before the approach of the Eighty-Second Regiment, leaving behind defenseless civilians to surrender the town of Wilmington to the Crown. The regiment’s commander assigns Lieutenant Michael Stoddard the tasks of tracking down a missing woman and probing into the suspicious activities of an unusual church. But as soon as Michael starts sniffing around, he discovers that some of those not-so-defenseless civilians are desperately hiding a history of evil.“With Suzanne Adair as the author, once you start it you won’t want to put it down.” — Amazon CustomerLeap into adventure in the past. Buy Deadly Occupation to start reading Michael Stoddard’s tales of murder, intrigue, and peril today!

Deadly Occupation (A Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Suzanne Adair

Killer Debt is Book 4 in the Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery series. If you like Diana Gabaldon, Bernard Cornwell, and Jim Butcher, then you’ll love this fast-paced, tension-filled detective novel.
 A slain loyalist financier, a patriot synagogue, a desperate debtor. And Michael Stoddard, who was determined to see justice done.July 1781. The American Revolution rages in North Carolina. Redcoat investigator Captain Michael Stoddard is given the high-profile, demanding job of guarding a signer of the Declaration of Independence on a diplomatic mission to Crown-occupied Wilmington. When a psychopathic fellow officer with his own agenda is assigned to investigate a financier’s murder, Michael is furious. The officer’s threats to impose fines on the owner of a tavern and link her brother to the financier’s murder draw Michael into the case—to his own peril and that of innocent civilians. For neither killer nor victim are what they first seem.Leap into adventure in the past. Buy Killer Debt, Michael Stoddard’s fourth tale of murder, intrigue, and peril today!

Killer Debt (A Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery)

United States

Book #3 of Suzanne Adair's Mysteries of the American Revolution Trilogy.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.Camp Follower was nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Historical Mystery/Suspense and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction.Originally published by Whittler's Bench Press.

Camp Follower (A Mystery of the American Revolution)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Regulated for Murder is Book 2 in the Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery series and a Suspense Magazine “Best of 2011” read. If you like Diana Gabaldon, Bernard Cornwell, and Jim Butcher, then you’ll love this action-packed, rollicking-good murder mystery.“This is mystery writing at its best.” — Great HistoricalsFor 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, he’s 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.“First rate historical fiction and a heck of a good murder mystery” — Jim Chambers, Amazon Hall of Fame Top 10 ReviewerLeap into adventure in the past. Buy Regulated for Murder, Michael Stoddard’s second tale of murder, intrigue, and peril today!

Regulated for Murder (A Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery)

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.

Paper Woman (A Mystery of the American Revolution)

Book #2 of Suzanne Adair's Mysteries of the American Revolution Trilogy.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.Originally published by Whittler's Bench Press.

The Blacksmith's Daughter (A Mystery of the American Revolution)

Regulated for Murder (Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery)

Suzanne Williams

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