She was happily engaged to the most handsome man in the nation. Then he killed the president. 

An ornate Spanish dresser reignites a Civil War-era mystery. What did Lucy Hale know when her fiancé, John Wilkes Booth, shot Abraham Lincoln? The privileged daughter of a New Hampshire senator, Lucy was never questioned. Museum caretaker Levi Woodbury and reporter Claire Caswell are drawn into the search for a lost journal that may rewrite history.

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About the author: J. Dennis Robinson is the author of 20 entertaining books about American history, including two exciting New England “history mystery” novels, Point of Graves and Lucy’s Voice. With illustrator Robert Squier, he presents Portsmouth Time Machine, a graphic history of New Hampshire’s only seaport for kids of all ages. A second graphic history about Bunker Hill Monument is due in 2025. A popular and sometimes irreverent columnist and lecturer, his most recent illustrated hardcovers are A History of New Castle Island and Music Hall: How a City Built a Theater and a Theater Shaped a City—voted best history book of 2020 by the Independent Book Publishers Association. Also new is 1623: Pilgrims, Pipe Dreams, Politics and the Founding of New Hampshire—the first-ever true record of the early days of the Granite State. His other page-turning history books focus on privateering, outlaw Jesse James, Strawbery Banke Museum, Isles of Shoals archaeology, Wentworth by the Sea hotel, Lord Baltimore, child labor exploitation, and more. Dennis lives and writes in Portsmouth, NH, just across the swirling Piscataqua River from Maine.