AUTHOR'S NOTE

I grew up in Maryland, curious about the people there who found Civil War battles exploding where they lived. That led to my Master’s thesis, several children's novels, and a nonfiction history book, Too Afraid to Cry.

By then I was working at Old World Wisconsin, where I set my adult Chloe Ellefson mystery series. The newest Chloe, A Memory of Muskets, has a Civil War focus.