In this thrilling Edgar Award-nominated sequel to A Stranger Here Below, the young Pennsylvania Dutch sheriff Gideon Stoltz has a new case when a woman suspected of witchcraft in a nearby German settlement is found murdered. Suffering from a head injury after a fall off his horse, Gideon can’t recall anything that happened at the time of the woman’s death. When flashes of memory return, he realizes that not only did he know the victim, he was with her the night before she died. As Gideon delves into the investigation, he must put himself on the list of suspects.

Gideon’s wife, True, estranged from her husband following the death of their infant son, is gifted with unwelcome powers of second sight — and she is compelled to use her own reluctant methods of investigation.

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“A fierce wonder of a novel.” — The North Star Monthly

“A fast-paced story recommended for fans of historical mysteries . . . Every step of the journey to solve the crime feels real.” — Mystery Scene Magazine

“Nighthawk’s Wing is a marvel, a rich story masterfully told. Fergus has such a fine eye for details of landscape and period.” — Scott Weidensaul, author of A World on the Wing

“An atmospheric page-turner. I was borne away by Nighthawk’s Wing, and you will be too.” — Edith Maxwell, author of the Agatha Award-winning Quaker Midwife Mysteries

“In the tradition of Jeffrey Lent’s In the Fall, Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, and even Nathaniel Hawthorne’s early American novels, Nighthawk’s Wing melds human frailty and strength into the very texture of the place and time, creating a mystery that will call for multiple readings that savor its layers and revelations.” — Beth Kanell, author of The Winds of Freedom series

“I found myself rushing through — or maybe even ignoring — necessary tasks to return to Fergus’s book and Colerain County. I appreciated being fully engaged in the book’s fictional world, especially because it has stayed with me long after finishing the story.” — Elaine Meder-Wilgus, BookMark, WPSU Public Radio

“A murder mystery that has at its heart a praise hymn to America’s rural past.” — Patricia Bracewell, author of the Emma of Normandy trilogy

“A darkly engrossing tale in which a young sheriff struggles to understand and unravel not only the workings of the complex and dangerous souls he encounters, but his own tortured soul as well.” — Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall and A Slant of Light

“I absolutely loved Nighthawk’s Wing — I read it through in one day, and it’s haunted me ever since.” — Kristen Lindquist, author of Tourists in the Known World

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