
Murder in the Lincoln White House
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Barry Press
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C. M. Gleason
On March 4, 1861, the air at the inaugural ball is charged with hope and apprehension. The last thing anyone wants is any sort of hitch in the proceedings, so Lincoln's trusted entourage is on their guard: Allan Pinkerton, head of the president's security team, is wary of potential assassins, and Lincoln's oldest friend, Joshua Speed, is by his side, along with Speed's nephew, Adam Quinn, a jack-of-all-trades who's been called back from the Kansas frontier to serve as Lincoln's assistant.
But despite the tight security, trouble comes anyway: a man is found stabbed to death in a nearby room, only yards from the president. Not wishing to cause alarm, Lincoln dispatches young Quinn - instead of the high-profile Pinkerton - to discreetly investigate. Soon enough, Quinn is relying on the observation skills he developed as a scout and on unexpected allies - a determined female journalist and a free man of color - as he navigates high society, political personages, and a city preparing for war in order to solve the murder if he is to protect the president he's pledged to serve.
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Soon Abraham Lincoln assigns the job of investigating the murder to Quinn, who finds himself entangled with both women as he works towards his goal. Assembling a motley assortment of deputies, including the two women, a free black doctor, a 12-year-old Irish boy, and even a chicken, Quinn gets closer to the solution. But then when the witness in the first murder is found stabbed in the White House itself, Quinn’s job becomes all the more urgent. He must race to locate the murderer.
I highly enjoyed getting to listen to Murder in the Lincoln White House. The book is highly compelling and has a strong plot with multiple strands that weave together to form a unified story in the end. I loved the historical details that bring to life the world of Washington, D C. on the eve of the Civil War. We see the restrictions placed upon African Americans, even free ones, as well as just how different and undeveloped the capital city was 70 years after its founding. The book drew me in and gripped me without letting me go until the final sentence.
Barry Press does an excellent job of giving this book life as he performs the audio edition. With accents that effectively depict the various regions of the U.S. represented in this book, Press makes the characters seem highly real. He works well with the original text to build up the tension and draw listeners more and more into the story.
Murder in the Lincoln White House proved to be an excellent audiobook that kept me riveted. However, it was not so dramatic that it would be classified as a thriller, a genre that does not interest me. I thought the setting fascinating and the characters easy to connect with. I highly recommend this book to any lovers of mystery or historical fiction and give it five stars.
Fantastic historical mystery!
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