Shadow on the Valley

by Kirk Mitchell

Au beau milieu du carnage de la Guerre de Sécession, un tueur s'attaque à des femmes Dunkers, ces Baptistes allemands qui refusent de porter les armes pour l'un ou l'autre camp. Le colonel Simon Wolf, Juif Sudiste engagé dans l'armée du Nord, va traquer le meurtrier jusqu'au bout dans ce gâchis absurde où l'on entasse bras et jambes coupés dans un chariot et où le typhus finit le travail commencé par les armes parce qu'on a installé les latrines de l'hôpital près de la seule source disponible.

Genres: Mystery

342 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1994

About the author

Kirk Mitchell is an author who is known for his time travel, alternate history, historical fiction, and adventure fiction novels. Mitchell has also created several novelizations of movies.He writes under the pseudonym of Joel Norst

Kirk Mitchell served as a deputy sheriff on the Paiute- Shoshone Indian reservations of the desert country that includes Death Valley, and was a SWAT sergeant in southern California, before beginning his career as a full-time writer.

Reviews

[Peter]

While this American Civil War novel is always involving and well-written, it becomes increasingly implausible and quite preposterous by the final chapters. Having lost an arm in 1862, by 1864 a Southern-born Jew, Simon Wolfe, is now medical head for Sheridan’s Shenandoah campaign. The murder of some Druckers is obsessively investigated by Wolfe who suspects both Sheridan and George Custer on the word of a beautiful but mentally disturbed Drucker woman. Irascible and gullible Wolfe finally works it out.

[Carol]

This was a novel of the Civil War and one of my favorites of that genre.