Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth, Part I | 2014 | Kevin G. Summers | Buy |
| 2 | The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth, Part II | 2015 | Kevin G. Summers | Buy |
| 3 | The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth, Part III | 2015 | Kevin G. Summers | Buy |
Kevin G. Summers’ alternate history novel follows Joshua Webb, a small-town newspaper editor in 1888 New Hampshire who has spent years publishing uncomfortable questions about the Lincoln assassination. When Boston Corbett, the man who shot John Wilkes Booth, reaches out claiming to know the real perpetrators behind the conspiracy, Webb finds himself pulled into something far larger than a local story.
The novel blends historical fact with speculative elements. Boston Corbett was a real figure, a Union soldier who killed Booth while Booth was trapped in a burning barn in 1865, and the circumstances around his later life were genuinely strange. Summers takes that history as a starting point and asks what might have happened if Corbett had survived long enough to talk.
Readers who want the complete experience without the installment format should look for the collected edition. The serialized parts are useful for those who prefer the original ebook release or want to read the story in the order it was originally published, one part at a time.