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I'm also reading about assassination: three books about Abraham Lincoln's murder.
First was Hanging Mary, by Susan Higginbotham, a fictional account of Mary Surratt's role in John Wilkes Booth's plot. I followed that up with Kate Clifford Larson's nonfiction book Assassin's Accomplice, which also focused on Mary Surratt. And now I've just finished Manhunt, by James L. Swanson, about the hunt for Booth.
This was an interesting trio of books, and I'm glad I read the novel first, as it gave me a better sense of who the people were. It was the most sympathetic to Mary, but tracked fairly well with the facts in Larson's book. Manhunt was odd--it had too many maudlin passages and sometimes overmuch gruesome detail, and at times it seemed jarringly sympathetic to Booth--but fascinating.
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