The four women are Belle Boyd, Emma Edmonds, Rose O’Neal Greenhow, and Elizabeth Van Lew. Although each woman plays a significant role in the Civil War, they are not all on the same side. They each risk everything-families, lives, homes, and friends-to stand up for what they believe in, and Abbott is determined to celebrate them.
The four women have very different reasons for joining the cause Abbott aims to show how their stories interlink even if they never meet. Abbott chose to write Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy to highlight the different roles that women played during the Civil War. As such, the book is accessible both to readers with prior knowledge of the Civil War and new readers looking for a detailed introduction to the period. The women’s stories weave together to create a detailed picture of the Civil War from new perspectives. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy is largely told chronologically. Best known for her debut work, Sin in the Second City, Abbott, an ex-journalist, lives in New York City and writes full-time. Abbott is the bestselling author of multiple works of nonfiction. Nominated for the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for History and Biography projects, critics praised it for approaching the Civil War from a new angle. Karen Abbott’s military history book, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (2014), follows four extraordinary women who risked everything to leave their mark on the Civil War.
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