The Murder Of Willie Lincoln: A Novel (The John Hay Mysteries, 1)

The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning journalist and Washington insider Burt Solomon. Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and the Civil War seems without end, despite Abraham LincolnÆs determination to keep his beloved country united. LincolnÆs soul is tested when tragedy strikes the White House: Willie, LincolnÆs eleven-year-old son, the shining light in the presidentÆs life, diesùof typhoid fever, the doctors say. Then a message arrives, suggesting that murder, not illness, caused WillieÆs death. Lincoln asks John Hay, his trusted aide, to investigate. Hay, a boxer and a poet, is an adventurous, irreverent, skeptical, even cynical young man who is as close to Lincoln as a son. The more Hay unearths, the more daunting his task seems. Suspicions of a secessionist conspiracy within the Executive Mansion itself. A threat to LincolnÆs surviving sons. An extortion attempt against the presidentÆs hellcat of a wife. As the war rages on, John Hay chases the truth of WillieÆs murder through the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City. As he closes in, he discovers just how far LincolnÆs enemies will go to keep him silent.

• | Author: Burt Solomon
• | Publisher: Forge Books
• | Publication Date: Nov 12, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0765385856
• | ISBN-13: 9780765385857