Civil Blood: A Civil War Mystery

"This is a book you'll have trouble putting down," said the Richmond Times-Dispatch of Ann McMillan's Dead March, the opening installment in a series that blends vivid suspense, elegant period detail, richly developed characters, & the political & cultural tensions of its time. Set against the backdrop of 1860s Richmond, Virginia, the adventures of Narcissa Powers, a well-to-do young widow-turned-war nurse, & Judah Daniel, a freed slave & herbalist, are compelling reading for Civil War buffs & lovers of historical fiction. Civil Blood, the third book, opens in the spring of 1862 as the war escalates & troops move in for battle. But in Richmond, an even greater threat looms: smallpox. As Narcissa, Judah, & their friend, the British journalist Brit Wallace, soon suspect, this is more than microbial contagion. It is a deadly crime, a plague intentionally planted on "tainted" money, & they must race to halt a killer more lethal than the cannons on the blood-soaked fields of combat.McMillan, Ann is the author of 'Civil Blood: A Civil War Mystery' with ISBN 9780670899975 and ISBN 0670899976.