Frank Carlson Library

Blacksmith Meg Langslow returns to her hometown of Yorktown, Virginia for the annual celebration and craft fair. Meg has a long to-do list, but when the body of a con man turns up in her booth, solving a murder goes straight to the top.

"In October 1781, American, French, and British forces converged on a small village named Yorktown--a place that the British would try to forget and Americans would forever remember. In his riveting, balanced, and thoroughly researched account of the Revolutionary War's last pivotal conflict, author-historian Tim Grove follows the true stories of American, French, and British players, whose lives intersected at Yorktown. Through very different viewpoints--from...

A British drummer boy witnesses the last moments of the battle of Yorktown.