Murder at Gettysburg Author:Leslie Wheeler When author and historian Miranda Lewis accepts an invitation from her old college roommate and her roommate's father, a handsome, courtly Virginian, to attend the reenactment of the Gettysburg Battle over the Fourth of July weekend, she hopes to recapture the magic of the long-ago summer she spent with them. But the jaunt down memory lane turns... more » into a nightmare when her roommate's estranged husband, Wiley, a hardcore Confederate reenactor, is shot in the leg and dies of a heart attack while reenacting Pickett's Charge. Wiley's death begins to look suspicious when a large amount of money is found on the shooter, a fellow reenactor, after he flees the scene on his motorcycle and is mowed down by a truck. Also, the victim had no known history of heart trouble. Concerned for her grieving friend, who blames herself for her husband's death, Miranda sets out to discover the truth. As she plunges into the strange and sometimes scary world of Civil War reenactors, she uncovers a string of betrayals that have resulted in mayhem and ultimately murder. The revelations force Miranda to shed certain cherished illusions about people and events of both the past and the present, and to risk her own life to uncover a cunning killer. Leslie Wheeler, a descendant of Union general George B. McClellan and a self-confessed Civil War buff, is the author of a previous mystery, Murder at Plimoth Plantation. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, son, and cat.« less