Featured Author - May 2023 C.M. Gleason

[Alice]

C. M. Gleason is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She lives with her family and two dogs in the Midwest, where she is hard at work on the next Lincoln White House Mystery.

C..M Gleason is a pseudonym used by Colleen Gleason

Lincoln White House Mystery

Murder in the Lincoln White House
Murder in the Oval Library
Murder at the Capitol

[Alice]

We can use Ms. Gleason for the American Civil War category in the Setting Challenge. We have not had an author whose books are set in the United States for this year for the setting Challenge.

I have never read the Lincoln White House Mystery series, but I did pick up book 1 and will read it in May.

I checked out her website

She writes under many names has many series.

https://www.colleengleason.com/books/

[Lauren]

Thanks Alice.
I've read her Envy Chronicles series under her name Joss Warre, but that is a futuristic dystopian, not historical mystery.

[Merle]

Michael Kilian is another author with a series set in the United States during the American Civil War.

[Alice]

I started Murder in the Lincoln White House last night. I am really enjoying it. The writing style is please with no too many descriptions make it boring. I really like the way Ms. Gleason writes her characters. Obviously we have President Lincoln but he does not dominate the book but always a gentle reminder. Our main Character, Adam Quinn, is very interesting and you want to learn more about his previous like in Kansas. Now I need more time to read it.

[Alice]

Alice wrote: "I started Murder in the Lincoln White House last night. I am really enjoying it. The writing style is please with no too many descriptions make it boring. I really like the way Ms. ..."

I finished Murder in the Lincoln White House (Lincoln's White House, Bk 1) 4 stars out of 5.  Set in March 1861 at President's Lincoln inauguration. I very much enjoyed this book. She writes her characters very well. You want to get to know them. Our main character, Adam Quinn, is from Kansas and has know link since childhool. Ms. Gleason of  President Lincoln is a mild man who is trying to do right by the country. She brings alive the issue of slavery and the fear of the Free people of color who lived in Washington DC at that time.  She does a wonderful description of fashion at the inaugeral ball and dealing with all the hoop skirts.  I hope to find book 2 and read that soon.

[Sandy]

I finished Murder in the Lincoln White House. I only gave it two stars. The plot was okay, and an interesting team has been assembled for future adventures. But I got bored with the hero's good looks and tragic past as well as the mud in DC. From all I know the history was very accurate, but the book did not grab me.

Always glad to read a new author however and I did fulfill one of the challenge categories.

[Katy]

I also finished Murder in the Lincoln White House. I liked it well enough, but not enough to want to continue the series. I did like the glimpse of what life was like in Washington right before the American Civil War.

[Maggie]

I enjoyed this book and the following books in the series. There were an assortment of interesting characters. The timing of the book, just as the War Between the States was about to begin, was interesting, especially since it was set in Washington D.C. I appreciated that the author tried to be historically accurate, while explaining exceptions.

[Alice]

I think my favorite part was the portrayal was President Lincoln's humbleness. Seemed like a person you could sit down and talk to.