The Assassin's Accomplice

2008 MJF Books hardcover, Kate Clifford Larson (Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero). Often reading like a suspense -filled mystery novel, Assassin's Accomplice tells the middle- class mother and widow named Mary Surratt. An unlikely criminal, Surratt was tried and hanged for her participation in John Wiles Booth's vicious plot, making her the first woman ever executed by the United States government. Since then , debate has raged about her level of involvement- was she just an innocent woman trapped in Booth's murderous web, or a key player who willingly nurtured and helped cultivate the conspiracy to kill" President Abraham Lincoln". - Amazon