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The Murder of Willie Lincoln: A Novel

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Roger Wayne

9 Hours 58 Minutes

Macmillan Audio

February 2017

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Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln’s will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president’s heart, is taken by typhoid fever.

But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives, suggesting otherwise. Lincoln asks John Hay, his trusted aide—and almost a son—to investigate Willie’s death. Some see Hay as a gadfly--adventurous, incisive, lusty, reflective, skeptical, even cynical—but he loves the president and so seeks the truth behind the boy’s death.

And so, as we follow Hay in his investigation, we are shown the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City, from the president’s office and the gentleman’s dining room at Willard’s Hotel to the alley hovels, wartime hospitals, and the dome-less Capitol’s vermin-infested subbasement. We see the unfamiliar sides of a grief-stricken president, his hellcat of a wife, and their two surviving and suffering sons, and Hay matches wits with such luminaries as General McClellan, William Seward, and the indomitable detective Allan Pinkerton.

What Hay discovers has the potential of not only destroying Lincoln, but a nation.

The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning political journalist and Washington insider Burt Solomon.

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  • Crompton B.

    For anyone looking about for a sketch of wartime Washington or glimpse inside the Lincoln White House, this is the perfect read. John Hay as the character around which all revolves is another strength, but for me the plot took too long to unfold hampered by turns of description that slowed the pace to a crawl at times. The narrator was adept at balancing the subtle accent differences and did a nice job conveying Hay's quandaries and puzzlement at being detailed to move from secretary to the President to lead investigator and proved a key to my pressing through to the conclusion.

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