description: Dispatched to London in the summer of 1862, as the Confederates secretly purchase warships to sweep the Union's commerce from the seas, Union Major Abel Jones arrives to discover the corpse of his predecessor in a basket of eels. The mystery deepens as Jones finds himself tangled in scandals in Parliament, grisly murders among Victorian England's poor, and the very real danger that Britain will be drawn into war with the U.S. once again. Three books in this series precede Honor's Call Each River Jordan, Shadows of Glory and Faded Coat of Blue. Shadows of Glory was selected by both the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as one of their Best Books of 2000, and Faded Coat of Blue was awarded the 2000 Herodotus Award for Best First Historical Mystery.
language: English
title: Honor's Kingdom
titlecomplete: Honor's Kingdom (Abel Jones, #4)
genres: Historical Mystery, Historical, Mystery, Humor, Civil War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, American Civil War
ratings_count: 302
series: Abel Jones
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hammett Prize
publisher: Books on Tape