Murder at the Capitol

Lincoln’s White House Mystery Series, Book 3

By: C. M. Gleason

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

July 1861. On Independence Day, the citizens of Washington, DC, are celebrating as if there isn't a war. But the city is teeming with green Union recruits while President Lincoln and his War Department are focused on military strategy to take Richmond in Secessionist Virginia in order to bring the conflict to a swift end. Manassas, Virginia, near Bull Run Creek, is in their sights.

The very next morning, as Congress convenes once more, a dead body is found hanging from the crane beneath the unfinished dome of the Capitol. Lincoln's close confidant, Adam Speed Quinn, is called upon to determine whether the man had taken his own life, or if someone had helped him.

With the assistance of Dr. George Hilton and journalist Sophie Gates, Quinn investigates what turns out to be murder. But the former scout is about to be blindsided, for a Southern sympathizer in the city is running a female spy network reporting to the Confederacy, and she has an insidious plot to foil the Union Army's march to Manassas by employing the charms of one Constance Lemagne to get as close to Adam as possible....

©2020 C. M. Gleason (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

MURDER AT THE CAPTIAL

This is another good book about Abraham Lincoln. In this book Adam is Lincoln's best friend and helps Lincoln. Every time a body is found Adam is called. I think this is based on true cases. I liked the first two but this is my favorite. It was easy to follow. James Anderson Foster does a great job narrating this book.