cover image The Ambush of My Name

The Ambush of My Name

Jeffrey Marks. Silver Dagger Mysteries, $24.5 (192pp) ISBN 978-1-57072-184-7

In his first novel, The Ambush of My Name, Jeffrey Marks reimagines Ulysses S. Grant's post-war homecoming to Georgetown, Ohio, as a historical mystery. When Grant is met with hostility from many townspeople and with a corpse in his hotel room, he tracks the murderer to find out who wants to make trouble for him in the presidential elections.