Librarian Hannah recommends: Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer By James L. Swanson

This book has it all: murder, intrigue, suspense and a sense of history. Swanson has written an engrossing narrative detailing the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the subsequent escape and search for his killer, John Wilkes Booth. The reader is brought back in time to the 1860s with a day by day, hour by hour account of the manhunt. The book is remarkable in that it reads as though it were a work of fiction, but of course it is not. Swanson has meticulously researched the subject and has included medical, investigative and historical details that add interest and make this book difficult to put down or forget.

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