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I can't recommend a Lincoln biography, but I can recommend a book I am currently reading:
Bloody Crimes, by James L. Swanson
It's not so much a life story - more a death story. It starts at the assissination, and covers Lincoln's lying in state, the funeral train which took him back to Springfield IL to be buried, and the actual burial.
Doesn't sound very interesting, does it? But let me tell you, it's extremely gripping - even exciting in parts.
It also tells the parallel story of the last few days of Jefferson Davis, whose flight from Richmond coincided with the above Lincoln train journey, etc.
The reason I read it is that I had previously read Manhunt, by the same author. It told the story of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth and the other assassins. That was a real page-turner.
Both books are available for the Kindle and perhaps other readers.
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