Robert L. Skidmore

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2000
  • Latest Book:
    June 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Conor Gifford

1 - The Day the Mountain Cried (Mar-2004)
2 - Circles Within Circles (Feb-2005)
3 - Keep A Happy Ghost, Or None (May-2006)
4 - The Gods are Talking (Apr-2007)
5 - The Jealous Mistress with a Hubris Problem (Aug-2008)
6 - The Accidental President (Dec-2009)

Inspector Richard Thatcher

1 - The City of Lost Dreams (Sep-2000)
2 - Cluster of Spies (Nov-2001)
3 - The Hollow Men of Capitol Hill (Jul-2002)
4 - The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel (Feb-2003)

Lieutenant Chase Mansfield

Mountain Mystery, Fairfax Miasma (Aug-2010)
Pay or Pray: The Odd Threesomes (Jul-2011)

Satterfield Saga

1 - If Genes Could Talk (Dec-2000)
2 - Yankee Doodles in Black Hats (Aug-2001)
3 - Green Eyes, Red Skies: Pale Ale, White Sails (Aug-2001)
4 - Point of Rocks ()
5 - The Drums, the Fog, the Terrible Shadows of War (Aug-2001)
6 - The Sorry World (Jul-2001)
7 - Did You Lose Your Elephant? (Jul-2001)
8 - The Ballbreaker (Jun-2001)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • The City of Lost Dreams

    Inspector Richard Thatcher - 1

    After ten years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles Field Office, Inspector Richard Thatcher reluctantly reports to Washington D.C. He arrives the day after a mysterious assailant murders the Chief of Staff to the President. To Thatc...

  • If Genes Could Talk

    Satterfield Saga - 1

    The Satterfield Saga, the dramatic story of America's youth and the men who made her great. Born on the frontier of the isolated foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Satterfield twins, John and James, take different paths to glory. John joins...

  • The Ballbreaker

    Satterfield Saga - 8

    Greek tanks roll in the cradle of politics as a defeated Prime Minister struggles to retain power. Amidst the chaos, Roland Satterfield and his beleaguered staff confront Greek and Iranian terrorist teams while a Libyan volunteer spins a complicated ...

  • Did You Lose Your Elephant?

    Satterfield Saga - 7

    Two distant relatives unwittingly cross paths and violence results. In Asia Japanese terrorists assassinate three senior American intelligence officers. Rollo Satterfield, an inexperienced trainee, discovers a link and is dispatched to Singapore wh...

  • The Sorry World

    Satterfield Saga - 6

    Two brothers, identical twins, forsake the mountains of West Virginia and seek their destinies in New York City. Blair Satterfield, the novelist, encounters early success, though not of the kind he anticipated. Brighton Satterfield, the playwright,...

  • The Drums, the Fog, the Terrible Shadows of War

    Satterfield Saga - 5

    Members of a divided Satterfield family fight for opposing causes. Jon, the family's hope for the future, drifts southward. When boyhood friends, the sons of General Robert E. Lee, join their father, Jon enlists as a member of Lee's staff. The Satter...

  • Green Eyes, Red Skies: Pale Ale, White Sails

    Satterfield Saga - 3

    This is the story of an American family in the War of 1812.The Satterfield business empire embroils the family in the political disputes that lead to another war with England. Jason builds a speedy blockade-runner; a British picket ship impresses Tod...

  • Yankee Doodles in Black Hats

    Satterfield Saga - 2

    The Satterfield twins, John and James, carry our story through the American Revolution. James conspires with George Mason and George Washington in the days that lead to Washington's selection as Commander in Chief of the rebelling colonial forces. Wa...

  • Cluster of Spies

    Inspector Richard Thatcher - 2

    A ranking defector shakes the National Security establishment to its core when he reveals that Washington's most sensitive secrets routinely pass across the Russian President's desk. Fearing that his own organization has been penetrated, the Director...



  • The Silicon Wizards

    This is the story of a revolutionary device that changed the world. We follow its development along three lines:

    A young Harvard sophomore, Charles Swift, and his high school mate, James Clapper, learn that a small company in New Mexico has ...

  • The Hollow Men of Capitol Hill

    Inspector Richard Thatcher - 3

    President Walter Coopersmith selects Richard Thatcher, a professional, as his Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In private, Coopersmith confides his dissatisfaction with Director James Stearne and his plan to replace him with Th...

  • The Distracting Splat at the Eiffel

    Inspector Richard Thatcher - 4

    In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice President Harriet Styles its candidate for the Presidency. The task of apprehending the shooter falls to Ric...

  • The Day the Mountain Cried

    Conor Gifford - 1

    A tropical storm named Jason transforms Chief Deputy Conor Gifford's peaceful October evening into a veritable hell. Jason unleashes hurricane strength winds and horizontal rain on an unprepared Loudoun County. Under the cover of Jason's wrath, a kil...

  • Circles Within Circles

    Conor Gifford - 2

    In this mystery, the second in a series, curiosity about an old flame leads interim Sheriff Conor Gifford to accept an invitation to participate in a Richmond conference which in turn ensnares him in a dubious investigation at the behest of a lame du...

  • Keep A Happy Ghost, Or None

    Conor Gifford - 3

    Confronted by an election campaign for which he has no heart, Sheriff Conor Gifford moves to Richmond where he joins two old friends, Governor Graham Martin and Attorney General Samantha Darrow. On the very day that he assumes command of his new orga...

  • The Gods are Talking

    Conor Gifford - 4

    A terrorist bomb destroys a corporate jet, and a reluctant Conor Gifford, the Chief of the Office of Special Investigations, is thrust into an investigation that takes him to picturesque but bloody Kashmir where he is greeted with disdain and encoura...

  • The Jealous Mistress with a Hubris Problem

    Conor Gifford - 5

    On an early November morning, a killer strikes, his victim a prominent member of Congress. Before investigators identify the perpetrator, a second congressman dies. Both men were members of a sensitive oversight committee, the House Permanent Select ...

  • The Accidental President

    Conor Gifford - 6

    Vice President John Walker dies in the arms of his mistress on the same afternoon that a sniper kills President Harrison Tate. A coincidence? Inspector Colin Gifford and Tracey Schultz, the chairman of the task force appointed to investigate, do not ...

  • Mountain Mystery, Fairfax Miasma

    Lieutenant Chase Mansfield

    Poppy Gore, a local realtor, discovers the body of a client she had met only once lying on the floor of an isolated cabin on a West Virginia mountaintop with four bullet holes in his chest. Sheriff Billy Jones calls on a fellow law professional, the ...



  • The Jealous Mistress witha Hubris Problem

    The FBI treats an attack on a member of Congress as one of those unfortunate incidents. Before they can identify the killer or his motive, a second legislator falls. Both victims were members of a sensitive committee, the House Permanent Select Comm...

  • Pay or Pray: The Odd Threesomes

    Lieutenant Chase Mansfield

    The murder of a college professor and the kidnapping of the Secretary of Homeland Security lead to a national crisis involving foreign agents and parallel investigations by a FBI Special Agent and a Fairfax Detective with contrasting styles. Robert L...

  • The Private Spy

    A prominent foreign correspondent takes a sabbatical, attempts to write a magnum opus, stalls, and is enticed into an assignment that implicates him in espionage, multiple murders, and the competition for a Pulitzer Prize. It all begins when his fia...

  • Point of Rocks

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    Satterfield Saga - 4

    Point of Rocks features the Satterfield family of Alexandria, Virginia, as participants in the bitter 1820-1840 competition between the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Goaded by the success of the Erie Canal in ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert L. Skidmore has published 23 books.

Robert L. Skidmore does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Private Spy, was published in June 2013.

The first book by Robert L. Skidmore, The City of Lost Dreams, was published in September 2000.

Yes. Robert L. Skidmore has 4 series.
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