Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1994-10-01


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    During the Women's Rights Convention of 1848, a body turns up in the canal-and town librarian Glynis Tryon stands up to a killer....

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 373 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1997-08-01


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    An anthology of historical mystery tales spans the centuries from ancient Rome to Victorian England and features twenty-one stories by Anne Perry, Steven Saylor, Edward Marston, Carola Dunn, Laurie King, Peter Lovesey, Maan Meyers, and other notable authors. Original."...

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 2003-08-05


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    In this thrilling conclusion to the Civil War trilogy, Bronwen Llyr must convince Union Army generals of General Lee's battle plans before Northern forces retreat....

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 351 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1996-06-01


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    Town librarian and activist Glynis Tryon spearheads the local movement for Seneca Iroquois rights in the face of white discrimination, an effort that is complicated when an Iroquois friend is framed for murder. Reprint....

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1995-05-01


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    While working for the Underground Railroad in Seneca Falls, New York, librarian Glynis Tryon is troubled by the suspicious death of a freed slave and uncovers a shocking secret about some of her fellow abolitionists. Reprint. K. PW. ...

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 2002-09-03


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    In 1862, while troops prepare to capture Richmond, undercover agent Bronwen Llyr begins her own battle: to free her brother from prison. But as time escapes her, so does hope....

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
Edition: 1st

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    In Washington City in 1862, President Lincoln rallies the Union troops for the largest single campaign of the Civil War. And two sisters from Seneca Falls take their places among the players of history, sparked by the fires of conviction...

As part of the new special intelligence force of the Treasury, Bronwyn Llyr finds herself undercover and behind the lines. Her sister Kathryn volunteers as a nurse for the Union Army. In the heart of enemy territory and in the thick of battle, the two sisters must solve a baffling mystery, and thwart a Rebel conspiracy that threatens both their lives-and the entire outcome of the war...

Praise for Monfredo's previous historical mysteries:

"Seneca Falls is our perfect mirror for viewing the American women and men of the 1860s."-Chicago Tribune

"[Monfredo] is at her best pulling plot twists out of actual events. Her research is evident on every page."-Publishers Weekly"Written beautifully, richly satisfying both to the head and to the heart."-Anne Perry

Seventh in the acclaimed series...

    Miriam Grace Monfredo's Seneca Falls, New York, produces some extraordinary women, chief among them Glynis Tryon (1999's Must the Maiden Die, et al), the librarian turned early feminist detective, and Tryon's nieces Bronwen and Kathryn Llyr. Sisters of Cain, the seventh in Monfredo's series, takes place in 1862. The more conservative Kathryn is determined to nurse the wounded of the Civil War and hence travels to Washington to join Dorothea Dix's squad of Union battlefield nurses. Bronwen, the fiery redhead lately canned by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, has joined forces with Rhys Bevan, the chief of detectives at the U.S. Treasury Department. The Pinkertons, as it happens, comprise the Union's spy network from Washington southward. By the time of the action, they have been entirely compromised by secessionist sympathizers within the U.S. government, pressing the Pinkertons (who are professional detectives but amateurs at spying) into deep cover, the deep South, and deep trouble.

"Since your contact was one of those named on that page, you may also be known. The upshot of it," Rhys added, "is that I can't send you back there. Which, at least temporarily, gives me no agents in Baltimore."

She knew him too well to take this as a callous remark. No matter how it sounded, it wasn't a lack of agents in Baltimore that had so disturbed him, but their violent deaths.

The Union's most immediate concerns are launching its ironclad, the Monitor, to meet and nullify the South's just commissioned Merrimac, and taking the war to the South with General George McClellan's Virginia Peninsula Campaign. And it is in and around both of these events, and amongst Monfredo's well-drawn characters both real (McClellan, Dix, Bevan, Lincoln, et al) and imagined, that Bronwen and Kathryn must prevail.

Fast-moving, tightly written, and more than enough historical accuracy, feminism, spy craft, romance, and mystery for almost any reader, Sisters of Cain will no doubt find its way to a wide variety of bedsides. And if the detective-fancying-Civil-War-buff fans in those beds enjoy this, they should also try John Jakes's On Secret Service. --Michael Hudson...

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1997-07-01


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    As the 1850s come to a close, Glynis Tryon returns to her hometown of Seneca Falls, New York, where she helps defend the celebrated abolitionist John Brown against politically motivated charges of counterfeiting. Reprint. LJ. "...

    Like her librarian heroine Glynis Tryon, Miriam Grace Monfredo must be a voracious polymath, interested in everything from high fashion to the work involved in making fake bills and coins. Both subjects play important roles in her fourth book, another historical mystery set in the upstate New York town of Seneca Falls, this time in 1859. But even though her story is full almost to the point of bursting with issues such as slavery and women's rights and real characters such as Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist John Brown, Monfredo also manages to keep us interested in her fictional creations as they deal with their daily lives against the canvas of history. Other books in this rewarding series available in paperback are Seneca Falls Inheritance, North Star Conspiracy, and Blackwater Spirits. ...

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1998-08-01


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    Bestselling myserty authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II--featuring original historical mysteries by Robert Barnard, Jan Burke, Michael Coney, Dianne Day, Carole Nelson Douglas, Elizabeth Foxwell, Edward D. Hoch, Nancy Kress, Gillian Linscott, Edward Marston, Miriam Grace Monfredo, Maam Nyers, Sharon Newman, Anne Perry, John Maddox Roberts, Laura Joh Rowland, Walter Satterthwait, Sarah Smith, and William Wu.

* A companion to Crime Through TIme, the remarkable first collection of historical mysteries * All new, never-before-published stories by bestselling award-winning writers. * Named a Top Ten Paperback by The Poisoned Pen...

Authors: Miriam Grace Monfredo.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 1999-01-01


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    The acclaimed mysteries of Miriam Grace Monfredo have fascinated readers by bringing to life one of the most exciting eras of our nation's history, and the adventures of a small-town librarian named Glynis Tryon... It's the eve of the Civil War, and Glynis Tryon's niece, Bronwen, has joined Pinkerton's Detective Agency. While on her first assignment in the South, two agents are murdered. When word reaches Seneca Falls that Bronwen is in trouble, Glynis heads south--and finds her niece caught in the midst of a diabolical plot designed to strike at the very heart of the United States government....