Chasing Lincoln's Killer

by James L. Swanson
PRMS hardcover 194 pages & PRMS audioCDs 4 discs
read by Will Patton
genre: non-fiction, history

I have heard raves about this book, but I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read the book rather than listened to the audio version. Patton over-dramatized the telling, making it seem almost silly. It was informative and interesting, but not as gripping a tale as the narrator's inflection implied. The book also had great photographs and reprints of broadsides. I learned about John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators. I was pretty shocked at the lack of security for a president.