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Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A nameless sniper is targeting participants in popular Civil War battle reenactments, and Minnesota reenactor Paul Edin is killed at the mock Battle of Kirby Creek, near Corinth, Mississippi. His death is ruled an accident, but Paul's widow, Jenny, discovers that the sniper's bullet was meant for the man standing next to Paul, a cop named Kenny Beeman. To penetrate the Mississippi smokescreen, Jenny enlists the aid of her former lover, news photographer...
Author
Series
Cartboy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hopelessly hapless Hal Rifkind, a.k.a. Cartboy, is off to summer camp. And not just any old camp, but history camp. Campers have to learn how to churn butter, plant maize, and carry water from the stream--or they get punished for not doing their chores. What else could possibly go wrong for Cartboy?"--
Author
Series
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 29
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp. And then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging around, trying...
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 10
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a re-enactor's musket blows up in his face, killing him, Bernie and Libby need to get to the bottom of his murder.
5) Past perfect
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Rita Mae Brown returns to bring feline mystery to a new level. Crozet, Virginia, is a pretty sleepy place, but during a Civil War reenactment, murder occurs, and postmistress and amateur sleuth Harry Harristeen and her three pets are soon on the prowl looking for the killer. Brown and her cat have written a delightful murder mystery that is purr-fect for cat lovers and mystery lovers alike.
Author
Series
Sweeney St. George mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
As gravestone expert Sweeney St. George tours burial sites of the Civil War, she stops to watch a battlefield reenactment in Massachusetts. There, she meets Pres Whiting, a boy whose family is in the gravestone business. When Pres discovers a dead man in a Revolutionary War-era British soldier's uniform, Sweeney and Cambridge homicide detective Tim Quinn jump on the case.
While they search for clues regarding the dead body, Sweeney and Quinn investigate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Through letters he writes in his journal, thirteen-year-old Amos finds a confidant in a queer historical figure from the Civil War. Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century...
Author
Series
Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 23
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A Civil War reenactment group has turned Blue Hill's park into a historical battlefield, but there's a battle of a different type brewing after a precious heirloom goes missing."--Page 4 of cover.
11) Ghost wall
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan; they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The students...
12) Uncivil Acts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A Civil War reenactment turns tense when someone secretly digs large holes in the battlefield. Is someone waging a little war of their own and trying to cheat, and if so, why?
Author
Series
Harriet Truman/Loose Threads mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"When the dust settles after the Foggy Point Civil War re-enactment, one casualty turns out to be really dead, and his identity sends shockwaves through the community. Does a long-lost quilt that suddenly reappears hold a clue? Harriet and the Loose Threads must unravel the mystery before the killer strikes again. And who is the mysterious young man with the military bearing who's drawn the admiration of Carla, the young woman the Threads have taken...
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