A MEMORY OF MUSKETS

A Chloe Ellefson Mystery

Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment—but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle. And when a reenactor is found dead at one of the historic site's German farms, Chloe's boyfriend, cop Roelke McKenna, suspects murder.

The more Roelke learns about reenacting, the more he fears that a killer will join the ranks at Chloe's special event. Then Chloe discovers a disturbing secret about Roelke's Civil War-era ancestors. Together they struggle to solve crimes past and present . . . before Chloe loses her job and another reenactor loses his life.

Bestselling author KATHLEEN ERNST is the award-winning writer of adult mysteries, historical fiction, and non-fiction history books for adults and young readers. Her latest are A Settler's Year: Pioneer Life Through The Seasons published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, and Death on the Prairie, the sixth Chloe Ellefson Historic Sites mystery for adults published by Midnight Ink Books.

Over the years Kathleen's work has earned numerous honors, including an Emmy, a LOVEY, and Edgar and Agatha mystery award nominations. To date, readers have purchased 1.6 million printed, electronic, and audio copies of her thirty-three published books.

Kathleen spent over a decade as a Curator of Interpretation and Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Old World Wisconsin outdoor museum, a job that provided great material for her novels.