Tag Archives: World War II
Keith Warren Lloyd. Cape Hatteras: A Novel. New York: iUniverse, 2008.
It’s common to think that the battle for the seas during World War II took place in distant locales like the South Pacific and the North Atlantic, but our own Outer Banks was the site of a dangerous cat-and-mouse game … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Coast, Dare, Lloyd, Keith Warren
Tom Lewis. Sons of Their Fathers. Swansboro, NC: Tease Publishing, 2008.
In this the final volume in the Pea Island Trilogy, it is the late 1970s. Dieter Bach, a concert violinist, has been shot during a mugging. Dieter’s hands have been so injured that he will not be able to resume his career. … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Coast, Dare, Lewis, Tom, Novels in Series
Tom Lewis. Sunday’s Child. Rocky Mount, NC: VP Publishing, 2006.
When Sunday’s mother dies in childbirth, she is handed over to a father who was unaware of her existence. Slick Everette is a gambling man, but a good cook, and he has been the cook for the surf men on … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Coast, Dare, Lewis, Tom, Novels in Series
John H. Hyman. The Relationship. Manassas, VA: E.M. Press, 1995.
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, in 1944 is a typically charming Southern town. Everyone knows everyone, and people generally look out for one another. Johnnie, the nine year-old narrator, describes the many adventures he and his best friend Wormy encounter that … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1995, Coastal Plain, Halifax, Historical, Hyman, John H.
Joyce Moyer Hostetter. Comfort. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, 2009.
The year is 1945 in this sequel to Hostetter’s earlier novel, Blue. Ann Fay has returned from treatment in a polio hospital and her beloved father is back from the war. Ann Fay thinks that she understands the changes that … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Catawba, Children & Young Adults, Hostetter, Joyce Moyer, Piedmont
H. F. S. Moore. Murder Goes Rolling Along. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., 1942.
Murders involving the medical personnel at Fort Bragg. No, it’s not the Jeffery MacDonald case. This is a much more straightforward who-done-it set during World War II. The plot is standard Crime Club fare, but the atmosphere of the base … Continue reading
Filed under 1940-1949, 1942, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Hoke, Moore, H. F. S., Mystery
Joyce and Jim Lavene. One Last Goodbye. New York: Avalon Books, 2000.
According to local legend, Navy Captain Billy Bost crashed his plane into Diamond Mountain Lake in 1944. More than 50 years later a Pulitzer Prize winning author comes to the mountain town of Diamond Mountain determined to find the plane, … Continue reading
Sarah Shaber. Snipe Hunt. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2000.
Raleigh professor and “forensic historian” Simon Shaw was supposed to be spending his Thanksgiving week relaxing at Pearlie Beach, but he agreed to help his friend look for archaeological evidence of a Tuscarora village while he was there. What he … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Coast, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Shaber, Sarah
Tom Lewis. Hitler’s Judas. Rocky Mount, NC: VP Publishing, 2007.
The second novel in the Pea Island Gold trilogy, Hitler’s Judas takes place during the same time period as series’ first novel, Sunday’s Child. However, this story is told from the perspective of two Nazis. One, Horst Van Hellenbach, is … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coast, Dare, Historical, Lewis, Tom, Novels in Series, Suspense/Thriller
Edward P. Norvell. Portsmouth: Spies, U-boats, and Romance on the Outer Banks. Winston-Salem: Distributed by John F. Blair, 2008.
The waters off the Outer Banks were crowded during World War II, with American and British submarines trying to keep German U-boats from getting close to American shores. In 1942 two U-boats and one British submarine were sunk. One U-boat … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Coast, Dare, Norvell, Edward P., Romance/Relationship
