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

With war clouds on the horizon, life in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina is nothing if not exciting. Ace reporter Coleman Blue revels in the hustle and bustle of the booming river town even as, like most whites, he chooses to ignore the ugliness of the slave trade on which so much of the Lower Cape Fear's wealth is predicated. But when a Yankee insurance detective presses Blue into an investigation of suspicious deaths of slaves owned by a long-time rival, Coleman Blue gets more excitement than he bargained for. On the eve of the Civil War, Coleman Blue is suddenly asking himself hard questions. The answers he finds will leave him fighting for his life.

Jacob's Run

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Zeller, Bob

Beshears, John

Mystery

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.Praise for Camp Follower, nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Historical Mystery/Suspense Award and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction:"Adair wrote another superb story." -- Armchair Interviews"Full of details, a unique historical perspective, an elaborate plot, and outstandingly strong characters, Camp Follower is a historical mystery with something to please everyone." -- No Name Café"Adair takes her reader on an exciting adventure, filled with historical fact wrapped around an intriguing plot." -- The Midwest Book Review"The smells, sights, and sounds of the Revolutionary War in the Carolina Back Country have nowhere been better depicted than in this thrilling novel of conflict and suspense. Suzanne Adair is a gifted storyteller, and her latest book deserves a wide audience." -- John Buchanan, author of The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas

Camp Follower

Suzanne Adair

Literary

Sixteen-year-old Cecilia Moore marries Kenneth Black as the first battles of the American Revolution swirl through the southern colonies. What Cecilia wants is to leave Three Sisters Tavern in Wilmington, North Carolina, and be mistress of her own home. What she finds at the lonely Black farm at Rocky Point are neglect and betrayal. Then Kenneth's murder leaves her no choice but to take charge and use her skills to survive. Cecilia has her baby, starts a salt works at Topsail Sound, opens a cheese factory in her kitchen and learns to grow tobacco as a cash crop. She deals with roving vandals, and British troops when redcoats move into Wilmington. With the words of he Declaration of Independence alive in her head, she frees her slaves. Cecilia knows she has played a small part in spreading the sparks of freedom. Then she surprises everyone with her plans for the future in the new state. Cecilia sees fields ripe for harvest in this sequel to the acclaimed "The Anchor - P. Moore, Proprietor."

Cecilia's Harvest: A Novel of the Revolution

Blonnie Bunn Wyche

Genre Fiction

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