Sophomore detective novel for Peter Pike chases after 'Lincoln Love Letters'
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 Linco...