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The New Stories

  • Please Dispose of Properly, a modern tale, was published in March 2010 in the short story collection Chesapeake Crimes – They Had It Comin'. Editors are Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman and Marcia Talley. The publisher is  Wildside Press. 
     
  • CTCastle Thunder, featuring the infamous prison of the same name and set in Civil War Richmond, was published for Kindle by Page One Inc., also in March.
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The Civil War Mystery Novels

Set in Civil War Richmond, Virginia, a city awash in the blood of sick and wounded soldiers as well as the seat of government as the Confederate capital, Ann McMillan's Civil War Mystery series features a complex cast of characters from every echelon of Civil War southern society.

All the novels were first published by Viking to widespread critical acclaim and later re-issued in paperback by Penguin.

  • Dead March, 1998
    Set in the spring of 1861 before the Confederate capital is moved to Richmond, the medical mystery of Dead March begins with a grave robbery by the "sack-'em-up men," who supply cadavers for the medical college.
    ISBN 0-670-88147-3 HB
    ISBN 0-14-028020-0 PB
     
  • Angel Trumpet, 1999
    Just after the 1862 Confederate victory at Drewry's Bluff, Narcissa Powers, a white widow turned nurse, again joins forces with Judah Daniels, a free black herbalist, this time to fight smallpox and discover the nefarious route of the contagion.
    ISBN 0-670-88148-1 HB
    ISBN 0-14-029838-x PB
     
  • Civil Blood, 2001
    A stolen letter, Richmond's Unionist network and lost children are important to this intricately crafted detective novel that puts lofty political goals on a collision course with human hopes and fears.
    ISBN 0-670-89997-6 HB
    ISBN 0-14-200124-4 PB
     
  • Chickahominy Fever, 2003
    War news is of the Confederate victory at Manassas. At home in Richmond, Narcissa Powers and Judah Daniel enlist the help of their friend, a dashing British journalist, to discover the cause of the brutal murder of a family in a plantation home.
    ISBN 0-670-03107-0 HB
    ISBN 0-14-200456-1 PB
  
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