The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer could be a good read for those who enjoy a thrilling mystery with a historical element. The book's most unique and distinctive feature is the premise of the four assassins secretly working together over a hundred years and the discovery of the fifth. The book's hero, Beecher White, is an archivist at the National Archives, making for a refreshing and quirky protagonist. The plot takes readers through history and the secret spaces of Washington, DC, making for a smart, deeply researched, and fun read.

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• Florida Book Award for Popular Fiction - Silver (2013)

From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been more than two dozen assassination attempts on the President of the United States.Four have been successful.But now, Beecher White--the hero of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Inner Circle--discovers a killer in Washington, D.C., who's meticulously re-creating the crimes of these four men. Historians have branded them as four lone wolves. But what if they were wrong?Beecher is about to discover the truth: that during the course of a hundred years, all four assassins were secretly working together. What was their purpose? For whom do they really work? And why are they planning to kill the current President? Beecher's about to find out. And most terrifyingly, he's about to come face-to-face with the fifth assassin.

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