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Brothers Of Cain
Berkley, Sept 2001, 22.95, 336 pp. ISBN: 0425181898 In 1862, the War Between the States turns ugly as members of the same family may be fighting on different sides. This is not the case for the Llyr family who is staunchly pro-union. Kathryn is a nurse in the Volunteer Sanitary Commission, giving aid to anyone who is wounded. Her sister Bronwyn is an espionage agent working for the Treasury Department. They are both watching the wounded ...
Children of Cain
In Children of Cain, the final book in Monfredo's Cain trilogy, U.S. Treasury Agent Bronwyn Lyr travels behind confederate lines to Chimborazo prison to save her sister, a fellow agent, and a young child. As if that wasn't enough she is entrusted by President Lincoln to help a British agent smuggle tobacco out of Confederate America to garner the favor of the British Government. She is helped along the way by O'Hara, a fellow treasury agent who she bar...
Seneca Falls Inheritance
A woman named Glynis Tryon sees womans body in a lake outside of her library. Glynis had seen and talked to this woman, who was new in town, the day before. There are some suspects but none of them really fit. The rest of the story is devoted to finding the murderer. In the story there are trials, 2 other deaths, a little bit of romance and there is the Womans Rights Convention of 1848 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In the end the murderer was the c...
The Stalking Horse
The novels begins at a tense moment in the smoky office of Detective Allan Pinkerton, the irascible head of Pinkerton's detective agency. Pinkerton grudgingly agrees to send Bronwyn to confederate territory in Montgomery Alabama for a simple assignment. However, this assignment turns out to be more than either bargained for as Bronwyn's fellow Pinkerton operatives are murdered in front of her and she along must unravel a plot by Southern successionist...