Series: Abel Jones
by Author Owen Parry
Faded Coat of Blue (1999)
This book hit the bestseller list quite quickly, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a great historical mystery, and those seem to be all the rage now. This first of two novels featuring Abel Jones, a captain of volunteers in the Union Army, is set during the early part of the Civil War. Jones ha...
Bold Sons of Erin (2003)
I had a hard time getting into this book. The first hundred pages or so didn't really move things along very well. I think that's due to the fact that the story starts halfway through the good part, and then has to spend a lot of time on discussions to backtrack and catch us up. Plenty of times t...
Honor's Kingdom (2003)
I love historical novels. Somehow this one I had a difficult time engaging with and getting started. It had all the right elements. Good plot, interesting characters, etc. The author here writes this in the first person of the main character & doing so creates a novel that seems to be written in ...