Regulated for Murder is Book 2 in the Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery series and a Suspense Magazine “Best of 2011” read. If you like Diana Gabaldon, Bernard Cornwell, and Jim Butcher, then you’ll love this action-packed, rollicking-good murder mystery. “This is mystery writing at its best.” — Great Historicals For ten years, an execution hid murder. Then Michael Stoddard came to town. Bearing a dispatch from his commander in coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, redcoat Lieutenant Michael Stoddard arrives in Hillsborough in February 1781 in civilian garb. He expects to hand a letter to a courier working for Lord Cornwallis, then ride back to Wilmington the next day. Instead, he’s greeted by the courier's freshly murdered corpse, a chilling trail of clues leading back to an execution ten years earlier, and a sheriff with a fondness for framing innocents—and plans to deliver Michael up to his nemesis, a psychopathic British officer. “First rate historical fiction and a heck of a good murder mystery” — Jim Chambers, Amazon Hall of Fame Top 10 Reviewer Leap into adventure in the past. Buy Regulated for Murder , Michael Stoddard’s second tale of murder, intrigue, and peril today! Praise for Regulated for Murder , a Suspense Magazine "Best of 2011" read: "First rate historical fiction and a heck of a good murder mystery." -- Jim Chambers, Amazon Hall of Fame Top 10 Reviewer "With a few deft strokes, [Adair] re-creates a time when the world was lit by a few candles and traveling from Wilmington to Hillsborough...took five grueling days on horseback." -- The Wilmington Star-News "One of the most original and captivating historical mysteries I've read in a long time, if ever. I felt completely transported to another time and place." -- Kaylee Stevens, Shelfari reader "When a book makes me stay up late at night to get to the end and have it solved it has to be a good read." -- NJM "Suzanne Adair tells a good story, well paced and buttressed with a wealth of historic detail that brings the reader back in time two hundred plus years, to an age when simply surviving took hard work, life was precarious and perils abounded and yet people were driven by the same emotions that drive us today in the twenty-first century; ambition, greed, love, hatred, lust and sometimes just pure wickedness." -- Andrew MacRae, Suspense Magazine Award-winning novelist Suzanne Adair is a Florida native who lives in North Carolina. Her mysteries transport readers to the Southern theater of the American Revolution, where she brings historic towns, battles, and people to life. She fuels her creativity with Revolutionary War reenacting and visits to historic sites. When she's not writing, she enjoys cooking, dancing, and hiking. In 2018, she was appointed by North Carolina's Daughters of the American Revolution to a state-wide committee formed by the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to help share information about and coordinate events of America's upcoming Semiquincentennial.