Shadows of Glory Author:Owen Parry Abel Jones, the quiet hero of Parry's acclaimed debut novel FADED COAT OF BLUE, is dispatched by Lincoln's government to a remote northern county where one Federal agent after another has been murdered. He discovers a haunted world in which lost loves appear from beyond the grave and a girl's cough hints at blood to come. While Jones struggles t... more »o make sense of a society set on end, the war bleeds on in a distant winter campaign... where a cherished friend has his own tie to the murders. Rich in characters, both fictional and historical, gorgeous in its language, clear as winter sunlight and swift as the telegraph that binds a young country together, this is historical mystery at its best.« less