Charles Fergus, Author Lyons Press $22.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-55821-128-5
When avid bird-hunter Fergus ( The Wingless Crow ) needed a partner to find, flush and fetch quarry in the rugged countryside of central Pennsylvania, he chose an English springer spaniel, seven-week-old Jenny. In this charming account of a human-can
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Charles Fergus, Author North Point Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-86547-491-8
The Florida panther is facing extinction; its dwindling population of about 50 is threatened by genetic problems, fragmentation and loss of habitat. Fergus (A Rough-Hunting Dog) examines the current status of the panther and the efforts under way to
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Charles Fergus, Author North Point Press $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-52552-1
Seeking a refuge to heal his grief over the death of his mother, who was stabbed by a burglar in her Pennsylvania home, Fergus took his wife, Nancy, and their eight-year-old son, Will, to unlikely Iceland for three months in the summer of 1996. The...
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Charles Fergus. Skyhorse, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5107-3850-8
Set in 1835, this underwhelming series launch from Fergus (Shadow Catcher) introduces 22-year-old Gideon Stolz, the sheriff of Pennsylvania’s Colerain County, who faces his greatest professional challenge in the case of a friend, Judge Hiram Biddle.
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Charles Fergus. Arcade Crimewise, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-951627-46-1
Set in 1836, Fergus’s superior sequel to 2019’s A Stranger Here Below finds Gideon Stoltz, the sheriff of Colerian County, Pa., suffering from severe memory loss, unsure of his age or the circumstances leading to his falling off his horse and...
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Charles Fergus. Arcade CrimeWise, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-956763-44-7
Set in 1837, Fergus’s fine third Gideon Stoltz mystery (after 2021’s Nighthawk’s Wing) vividly recreates pre–Civil War tensions in the service of a gripping whodunit. After Pennsylvania abolished slavery in 1780, the state became a refuge for those...
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