Murder at the Capitol
  • Published: 28 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781496723987
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $49.99

Murder at the Capitol

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Just in time for President's Day, the third Lincoln's White House mystery from the New York Times bestselling C.M. Gleason!

In July 1861, just months after the Battle of Fort Sumter plunges the young nation into civil war, President Lincoln’s top priority is to unite the country, while Adam Quinn finds himself on the trail of a murderer . . .
 
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 . . .
  • Published: 28 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781496723987
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $49.99
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Praise for Murder at the Capitol

Praise for C. M. Gleason's Murder in the Oval Library:
"An excellent mystery combined with brilliant historical detail." --Kirkus Reviews
"A simply riveting read from cover to cover, as author C. M. Gleason exhibits a genuine flair for deftly crafted storytelling and a mastery of the historical mystery genre." -Midwest Book Review
"This story abounds with historical characters as well as fictional ones...Murder in the Oval Library is an example of a single event taking precedence over a more monumental one, one person's murder versus a nation at war. Against that more epic background, the wheels of justice still move, however they may be impeded by the chaos surrounding them. This is a great novel for those who like their mysteries in a historical setting." - New York Journal of Books

"It would have been easy for Gleason to focus only on the murder, but she goes further by providing rich detail about this brief yet fascinating period of the capital's history. Along the way, readers learn about the hardships the city's inhabitants faced as the Rebels cut off supply lines, President Lincoln's frustration over the failure of Union troops to arrive, the struggles of the free black community, and the inconveniences of navigating life in a corset. Gleason masterfully raises the tension surrounding the murder in tandem with the desperation and fear of the city's inhabitants, keeping me turning pages well past my bedtime...Highly recommended." --Historical Novel Society