
Coming home from war isn't easy
On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq.Β What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town. The Rev. Clare Fergusson wants to forget the things she saw as a combat helicopter pilot and concentrate on her relationship with Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne. MP Eric McCrea needs to control the explosive anger threatening his job as a police officer. Will Ellis, high school track star, faces the reality of life as a double amputee. Orthopedist Trip Stillman is denying the extent ofΒ his traumatic brain injury. And bookkeeper Tally McNabb wrestles with guilt over the in-country affair that may derail her marriage. But coming home is harder than it looks. One vet will struggle with drugs and alcohol. One will lose his family and friends. One will die. Since their first meeting, Russ and Clareβs bond has been tried, torn, and forged by adversity. But when he rules the veteranβs death a suicide, she violently rejects his verdict, drawing the surviving vets into an unorthodox investigation that threatens jobs, relationships, and her own future with Russ. As the days cool and the nights grow longer, they will uncover a trail of deceit that runs from their tiny town to the upper ranks of the U.S. Army, and from the waters of the Millers Kill to the unforgiving streets of Baghdad.
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 Fergusson/Van Alstyne Mysteries IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER
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β’ March 2006
 A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD
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β’ April 2010
 OUT OF THE DEEP I CRY
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β’ October 2012
 TO DARKNESS AND TO DEATH
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β’ May 2006
 ALL MORTAL FLESH
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β’ October 2006
 I SHALL NOT WANT
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β’ June 2008
 ONE WAS A SOLDIER
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β’ April 2011
 THROUGH THE EVIL DAYS
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β’ November 2014
 HID FROM OUR EYES
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β’ April 2020
 AT MIDNIGHT COMES THE CRY
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β’ November 2025
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