Product Description: Sometimes unwittingly funny, Jones's narrative voice is a feast of fine language and well-rendered dialectical precision. --Publishers WeeklyA New York Times bestsellerWon the Herodotus Award for historical fiction, sponsored by the Historical Mystery Appreciation SocietyAbel Jones, a Welsh immigrant and Union army enlistee, investigates the death of Anthony Fowler, a young volunteer captain whose murder is blamed on the ConfederatesJones pursues the blood of the battlefield through the intrigues of Washington, D...read more

When a Yankee heiress is murdered in Civil War-era, Union-occupied New Orleans, prim Methodist detective Abel Jones launches an investigation that takes him from the French Quarter alleys, to nearby plantations, to the local bayous.

Investigating the murder of a Union general who was trying to recruit Irish immigrants, Union Army detective Abel Jones follows clues to the side of an insane Russian countess who may hold the key to a significant Civil War battle.

Product Description: Gripping . . . vivid . . . a fine historical novel . . . [a] marvelous evocation of atmosphere and place. --Washington PostIn a snow-swept Northern town, Union officer Major Abel Jones struggles to solve the riddle of Federal agents tortured to deathFrom the drama of Civil War Washington and a divided home front, to the hardship and triumph of Grant's capture, this novel conjures up an American past and brings it to life with authenticity and storytelling powe...read more

The Civil War collapses from illusions of chivalry into bitter reality overnight. A Welsh immigrant to the Union and a veteran of Britain's distant wars, Major Abel Jones survives the battle's slaughter only to face the riddle of a different kind of massacre.Far from the cries and smoke of combat, forty murdered slaves hang at a crossroads. There is little concern for the lost lives, but political dangers worry the leadership on both sides. The blood may be upon Northern as well as Southern hands. In a country shocked by casualty lists and unready for emancipation, only one man, a plain-speaking officer with a limp and a troubled conscience, insists on justice.Ritual murders spur merciless cavalry raids. Political chicanery conceals midnight brutalities. Guerrilla ambushes lead to an underworld of runaway slaves. Desperate men and women make a heartbreaking attempt to build a "city on a hill" in the Mississippi backwoods. And a chain of death proves as relentless as war itself.Call Each River Jordan re-creates the torment of a divided nation -- of shattered families and broken dreams -- yet the power of the human heart to hope underlies even the darkest moments of danger. A master of authenticity, Owen Parry captures the early reluctance of Grant and Sherman to free slaves as uncompromisingly as he portrays the hardscrabble-reality of the Southern backcountry. Whether describing the miseries and joys of a common soldier's life or recounting a slave's lifelong humiliation, Call Each River Jordan provides a vivid and startling portrait of America's past.Expanding the critically lauded panorama of Civil War America begun in Faded Coat of Blue and Shadows of Glory, Parry continues to reach beyond the familiar, cherished myths to depict a nation and its people as they really were: heroes and cowards, the faithful and the faithless, men and women honorable and less so -- and all of them very human. Suspenseful, swift-paced, surprisingly humorous, and populated with the unforgettable characters who have already become a hallmark of his fiction, Parry's latest novel offers a fresh and haunting vision of a past still with us today.

Product Description: "Parry's beautifully written narrative encompasses the international scope of the Civil War conflict and never loses sight of the brutality of war and the deceitfulness of politics." --BooklistWon the Hammett Prize for best mystery of the year, given out by the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime WritersGrotesque murders multiply as Major Abel Jones pursues a monstrous killer who may be a well-connected Confederate agent or a ghost from Jones's bloody past in India--or bothThe threat of an ocean-spanning war hangs over each new crime as Jones struggles to find a rumored warship that would serve the Rebels as a wonder-weapon of the age--and stop it from sailin...read more

Five Yuletide stories spanning a century of American life include the tales of a policeman who must choose between starving strikers and their employer, a World War I army colonel who hosts dinner for war orphans and his troops, a bootlegger who finds the spirit of Christmas, a Depression-era waitress who receives an unexpected gift, and a Cold War child who learns about sorrow in the wake of a mountain of presents. 50,000 first printing.

A nostalgic collection of four Civil War holiday stories by the author of the Abel Jones series features a kind Union solider from foreign soil, a kindhearted and gold-bearing general, a newly freed slave on a spiritual journey, and a wounded Confederate son returning home.