Richard Snodgrass

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1989
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Books of Furnass

1 - The Building (Jan-2018)
2 - Some Rise (Jul-2018)
3 - All Fall Down (Nov-2018)
4 - Across the River (Jul-2019)
5 - A Book of Days (Nov-2020)
6 - Furrow and Slice (Aug-2021)

Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • There's Something in the Back Yard

  • The Building

    Books of Furnass - 1

    The Building, the first book of the Furnass Towers Trilogy, is the story of the well-intentioned but ill-conceived attempt to construct a high-rise building in the middle of a stricken mill town, and the effect the project has on the town and the men...

  • Some Rise

    Books of Furnass - 2

    The return of Harry Todd Sutcliff after 20 years to the Western Pennsylvania mill town of Furnass rekindles the competition with his younger brother Dickie who took over the family’s prosperous real estate firm. Dickie Sutcliff finds himself dealin...

  • All Fall Down

    Books of Furnass - 3

    There's been a murder in Furnass -- or has there? The death under suspicious circumstances of prominent real estate developer Dickie Sutcliff leads the Reverend Bryce Orr to play detective. Ignoring contradictory evidence as well as prime suspects su...

  • Across the River

    Books of Furnass - 4

    In the summer of 1863, Judson Walker, a captain of Morgan’s Raiders, and Jonathan Reid, a young engineer, come to Furnass to appropriate two of Colin Lyles’ steam-powered road engines. The purpose is to outfit the engines with iron plate and the ...

  • Holding On

    The stories of Holding On show life in Furnass during the prosperous late 1970s and early 1980s, though there are rumors of mill closings and layoffs. Interwoven is a tale of two Scottish soldiers two hundred years earlier in the same area, strugglin...

  • A Book of Days

    Books of Furnass - 5

    Shadow of the Valley is a story within a story within a story - an innovative historical novel in three parts that tells the tale of an orderly's day book written at the end of the French and Indian War by an Ensign in the 42nd Royal Highland Regimen...

  • Furrow and Slice

    Books of Furnass - 6

    Beyond the valley's hills that define the mill town of Furnass is another world. A world of rolling hills and fields of wheat and oats and corn. A world of isolated farmhouses keeping company only with their barns and outbuildings. A world of open vi...

  • All That Will Remain

    It's 1914, and the Lyle family, like the United States itself, is at a crossroads. Malcolm Lyle, all too aware that he is no engineering genius like his father who founded the company, has made the Keystone Steam Works internationally known through h...



  • Redding Up

    In the working class dialect of Western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh, the phrase redd up means to put in order, to tidy or make neat, such as after dinner we helped redd up the table. In the stories of Redding Up, the final...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Snodgrass has published 10 books.

Richard Snodgrass does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Redding Up, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Richard Snodgrass, There's Something in the Back Yard, was published in October 1989.

Yes. Richard Snodgrass has 1 series.
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