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No one knows history quite like Peter Pike does. And that s ironic because the fictional sleuth shows little interest in annals of the past, his creator notes.
A figment of Columbia author Neal Fandek s substantial imagination, the detective put himself in the middle of American religious history and our national lust for treasure in Fandek s first novel, Peter Pike and the Murderous Mormons.
For his next adventure, Pike inadvertently inserts himself into a debate over the sexuality of no less than Abraham Lincoln. Peter Pike and the Lincoln Love Letters finds Pike chasing down Lincoln correspondence lifted from a major university. In his pursuit, he must navigate a world of fluid sexuality, political correctness, college race riots, musty archives and inconvenient truths, as Fandek s website notes.