Seth Armitage

by Timothy Ashby 2 books in this series

Set in the unsettled United States and Europe of the 1920s, the Seth Armitage novels follow a World War I veteran working with the young Bureau of Investigation as he confronts crimes in which the recent past remains dangerously active. Political corruption, unresolved wartime trauma and the legacy of the American Civil War shape investigations that move between official institutions and private conspiracies.

Across the series, Ashby places fictional detective work alongside documented figures and events, including the Harding administration, J. Edgar Hoover, Quentin Roosevelt and the early Nazi movement. The result is a historical-thriller sequence about the creation of modern federal policing and the political violence carried forward from one generation into the next.

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Books in this series (2 books)

1. Devil’s Den

Timothy Ashby

First published 2011

2.5(5)

Gettysburg, 1923. Bureau of Investigation agent Seth Armitage, a World War I veteran carrying the psychological effects of his own service, is assigned to the murder of an elderly Union veteran found at Devil’s Den on the eve of the battle’s sixtieth anniversary. The inquiry draws…

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2. In Shadowland

Timothy Ashby

First published 2016

3.5(8)

Washington, 1925. Former Bureau of Investigation agent Seth Armitage is summoned by J. Edgar Hoover after the exhumation of Quentin Roosevelt’s grave in France reveals that the body buried there is not the president’s son. Haunted by his own First World War service, Armitage agrees to…

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