Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth by Jennifer Chiaverini is is not a story of suspense, for history tells us both of his actions and of the consequences of those actions. The book feels a bit long at times, but it is an engaging one. Ultimately, this book is a story of four women who love a man despite his faults and of their memories not of a traitor but of a son, a brother, and a lover.

Read my complete review at Memories From Books - Fates and Traitors.

Reviewed for the Penguin First to Read program.

There's a little bit of everything I love in this line up; historical fiction and romance, slavery, mystery, suspense, war and tea. The early reviews on all of these books have been stellar. I am excited. 

September 6

Luxe 2: A La La Land Addiction by Ashley Antoinette

A Deadly Affection by Cuyler Overholt

September 13

A Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies

Darktown by Thomas Mullen

Fates and Traitors by Jennifer Chiaverini

The Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks

September 20

The Girl Who Fought Napoleon by Linda Lafferty

September 27

If I Had You by Heather Hiestand

The Girl In The Castle by Santa Montefiore

September 30

Slavery At Sea: Terror, Sex and Sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande Mustakeem

Have you heard, read or are excited for any of these September Releases?

Free today, April 15, due the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth, Part 1

http://www.amazon.com/Shot-John-Wilkes-Booth-Part-ebook/dp/B00NH0R3SC 

What is truth? For nineteen years, Joshua Webb has been asking that question in the pages of his newspaper, The Paradise Ledger. He’s been called a madman, a lunatic and an anarchist, but now he has stumbled upon a story so huge that it could shake the United States to its very foundation. The source of the trouble is Boston Corbett, the man who shot John Wilkes Booth. He claims to possess knowledge of the real perpetrators behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but if his story can be believed, what threat might this hidden truth present to Joshua Webb and the people that he loves?

The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth, Part 2

http://www.amazon.com/Shot-John-Wilkes-Booth-Part-ebook/dp/B00SLQ8X7W 

On the run from the U.S. Army, Joshua Webb and Boston Corbett, the man who shot John Wilkes Booth, return to the town of Paradise, Colorado in hopes of revealing the truth about the Lincoln Assassination. But agents of The Society of the Cincinnati are already at work in Paradise and have taken Webb's daughter and his lover captive. Will Abby Webb and the Widow McLarty be able to escape the same fate as the sixteenth president or will their tale end in tragedy?

This story is the second part of the tale begun in The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth, Part I.

Not bad, but really an overview of the events leading up to and after Lincoln's killing.  It's not really a biography of Booth though it does give detail about his childhood.