David Healey Books in Order

In 1864, Confederate sniper Lucas Cole is given an almost unthinkable mission: kill Ulysses S. Grant. The setup mixes battlefield suspense, espionage, and a high-risk what-if turn in Civil War history.

A desperate Confederate plot aims to unleash disease in Washington and force the Union's hand. A Southern agent must stop the scheme before wartime fanaticism becomes mass murder.

This nonfiction book revisits the War of 1812 around the Chesapeake through battle sites, reenactors, artifacts, and modern travel. It brings a half-forgotten conflict back down to ground level.

A band of Confederate raiders tries to seize the train carrying Lincoln to Gettysburg and change the war in a single stroke. What follows is a fast chase thriller powered by steam, nerve, and desperation.

Professor Bram McCoy is drawn into a murder investigation tied to his father's wartime journals and a secret SS project. The deeper he digs, the more dangerous his family's past becomes.

Healey explores the folk stories, strange history, and local characters that give Delmarva its personality. It is a readable tour through myths, oddities, and memorable tales from the peninsula.

Fourteen-year-old Alexander Hope has never seen the sea when he is sent off to serve in the Royal Navy. A rough beginning aboard HMS Resolution leads to danger, discovery, and the first signs of a rare power.

This regional history surveys the hurricanes, blizzards, floods, and tempests that have battered the Chesapeake for centuries. Healey ties weather drama to the people and communities caught in it.

Halloween brings fresh trouble to Tom and Mac when another old-house job turns strange. This short Delmarva mystery mixes renovation headaches, local atmosphere, and a quick seasonal puzzle.

While renovating an old house in Chesapeake City, Tom and his crew uncover a body hidden in the wall. The fixer-upper project quickly turns into a local mystery with long-buried secrets.

Ex-cop Nick Logan goes to Rehoboth Beach to find his missing niece and expects a quick trip home. Instead he gets pulled into a string of grisly murders and teams up with Detective Sarah Monahan.

On D-Day, American sniper Caje Cole lands in Normandy and finds himself locked in a private war with a feared German marksman. Across the hedgerows of France, each shot could decide who survives.

Young Royal Navy officer Alexander Hope survives one danger only to walk into another when spies and assassins close in aboard HMS Resolution. His hunt for a thief becomes a larger test of his growing powers and loyalties.

In the frozen Ardennes, Caje Cole faces the Ghost Sniper again during Germany's last great gamble of the war. Their rematch at the Battle of the Bulge turns a vast campaign into something fiercely personal.

A Santa impersonator is murdered during a Christmas tour of old houses in a Maryland waterfront town. Tom and Mac have to solve the case before the holiday spirit disappears completely.

This standalone novel looks back on one unforgettable summer and the bond at its center. It is a more intimate story, focused on memory, feeling, and choices that keep echoing.

This short historical tale centers on rivalry, pride, and a confrontation that both men know cannot be avoided. Healey keeps the focus tight and the tension high.

At the end of World War II, Caje Cole joins a secret mission to rescue American POWs hidden in a Soviet gulag. Between the Russian wilderness, a ruthless enemy sniper, and government secrets, getting home will not be easy.

A German sniper bent on restoring his family's honor targets Allied troops during the fighting around the Falaise Pocket. Standing in his way is Caje Cole, a mountain-born American marksman just as stubborn and deadly.

In autumn 1944, battered American and German units collide over a bridge in a small French village. What starts as a scramble for position turns into a tense showdown of officers, soldiers, and snipers.

This collection gathers David Healey's fiction and essays, many rooted in Delmarva and mid-Atlantic history. Expect pirates, soldiers, lightkeepers, local voices, and a strong sense of place.

When the Star-Spangled Banner is stolen, historian Franklin Scott Keane follows the trail from Baltimore to the Smithsonian and into the marshes of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The hunt becomes a murder case and a shot at personal redemption.

After an American pilot is shot down behind enemy lines, Caje Cole leads a rescue that spirals into a larger fight. Soon he and a ragtag force are making a last stand at a mountain pass.

Caje Cole thinks the war is over until violence at home sends him into the Korean War. Surrounded at Chosin Reservoir, he must battle brutal cold, impossible odds, and a relentless enemy sharpshooter.

At Triangle Hill in Korea, Caje Cole's unit fights to take and hold a battered ridge under constant Chinese attack. A hidden sniper on the heights turns the whole battle into a deadly duel.

After Pearl Harbor, Appalachian marksman Deacon Cole joins the fight against Japan and faces his first brutal island campaign. His skill with a rifle may be the only thing standing between his squad and a deadly enemy sniper.

When violence erupts in Baltimore in the first days of the Civil War, drifter Tom Flynn is pushed into choosing sides. His path takes him to Richmond and Bull Run in a fast-moving tale of spies, loyalties, and survival.

As Operation Nordwind erupts after the Battle of the Bulge, Caje Cole helps defend a mountain village against tanks, crack troops, and a sniper called the Butcher. Years later, the unfinished business still is not done.

Deacon Cole lands in the Philippines in the first wave of invasion and soon heads into the wet, punishing interior of Leyte. Jungle terrain, monsoon weather, and a vengeful sniper make every mile dangerous.

Deacon Cole and Patrol Easy land at Leyte ahead of the main American invasion and must crack Japanese defenses before the beaches turn into slaughter. Enemy snipers make every move deadly.

Patrol Easy is split apart during the campaign for the Philippines, leaving Deacon Cole to fight through jungle, fever, and hidden fire. The march toward Ormoc becomes a test of endurance as much as aim.

Deacon Cole and Patrol Easy fight across Leyte on their way to a jungle prison camp where Allied POWs are being held. Waiting for them is a brutal Japanese commandant and another deadly shooting match.

Trapped in Bastogne, Caje Cole is ordered to escort a captured German officer through the chaos of the Bulge. Snow, vigilantes, and a deadly sniper turn the mission into a grim test of duty and loyalty.

During the Battle of Manila, Deacon Cole and Patrol Easy fight street by street against an enemy that refuses to yield. A hostage rescue mission adds even more pressure to an already savage battle.

Deacon Cole heads toward the Kerama Islands to help wipe out Japanese suicide boat bases before Okinawa. Enemy fire is bad enough, but Halsey's Typhoon may prove even worse.