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Murder on K Street

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by Margaret Truman
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Nobody knows the crooked turns, slippery slopes, and dark, dangerous stretches of the Beltway better than Margaret Truman, dean of the Washington, D.C., mystery scene. And no one is better equipped to lead a suspenseful tour into the treacherous territory of big-time political lobbying, where the right information and enough influence can buy power–the kind that corrupts . . . and sometimes kills.
Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner, senior Illinois senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife’s brutally bludgeoned body. And like any savvy politician with presidential aspirations, his first move is to phone his attorney. In this case, it’s his old friend and college roommate, former DA Philip Rotondi, who gamely agrees to step out of quiet retirement and into the thick of a D.C.-style political, criminal, and public relations maelstrom from which no one will escape unscathed.
The crime scene is barely cold when the senator’s estranged daughter arrives hurling shocking allegations of murder at her father, despite a roomful of well-heeled witnesses who can provide Simmons with an alibi. Meanwhile, D.C.’s rumor mills and spin machines shift into high gear as speculation swirls around a tabloid- and TV-ready prime suspect: Jonell Marbury, a dashing lawyer turned lobbyist at a powerful K Street firm–and the last person to see the victim alive. But Rotondi harbors his own unsettling suspicions.
And after a second woman is killed, he discovers that a long-buried secret from his past may hold the key to cracking the case.
Aided by sleuthing ex-attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, Rotondi reawakens the prosecutorial skills that served him so well in his gang-busting days, following the stench of dirty money and dirtier tricks across the country and across the thresholds of back rooms and front offices alike–where doing the right thing is for fools and taking on the system is a dead man’s gambit.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Capital Crimes

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 30, 2007

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780345502421

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      • ISBN: 9780345502421
      • File size: 746 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 1, 2007
      Truman's 23rd Capital Crimes novel (after 2006's Murder at the Opera) offers little suspense and even less insight into the wheelings and dealings of contemporary Washington, D.C. One day, U.S. Senator Lyle Simmons, a presidential aspirant, arrives home to find his wife, Jeanette, murdered in their foyer. As the police investigate, fissures in the public facade of the Simmons's marriage appear, and Simmons's oldest friend, retired detective Phil Rotondi, who lost Jeanette to Simmons during college, wrestles with whether he should share all he knows about the politician with the authorities. Frequent flashbacks to those college days disrupt any narrative flow, and the florid and uninspired writing ("Washington! Was there any other place in the world with as much intrigue on a daily basis, and with so much at stake?") won't lead readers to confuse this mediocre thriller with the Machiavellian plotting of writers mining similar ground such as David Baldacci.

    • Library Journal

      September 24, 2007
      Truman's 23rd Capital Crimes novel (after 2006's Murder at the Opera) offers little suspense and even less insight into the wheelings and dealings of contemporary Washington, D.C. One day, U.S. Senator Lyle Simmons, a presidential aspirant, arrives home to find his wife, Jeanette, murdered in their foyer. As the police investigate, fissures in the public facade of the Simmons's marriage appear, and Simmons's oldest friend, retired detective Phil Rotondi, who lost Jeanette to Simmons during college, wrestles with whether he should share all he knows about the politician with the authorities. Frequent flashbacks to those college days disrupt any narrative flow, and the florid and uninspired writing ("Washington! Was there any other place in the world with as much intrigue on a daily basis, and with so much at stake?") won't lead readers to confuse this mediocre thriller with the Machiavellian plotting of writers mining similar ground such as David Baldacci.

      Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      November 15, 2007
      In the latest Capital Crimes novel, a prominent senator (and potential presidential candidate)comes home to find his wife lying dead on the floor of their house. The list of possible suspects, of course, is lengthy and includes numerous prominent names. Detective Charles Chang (his name chosen, apparently, so the author can make Charlie Chan jokes) must work his way through the suspect list to uncover the culprit. This long-running series has always depended on its Washington, D.C., setting for its appeal, and it doesnt hurt that the authors name is Truman (although its long been rumored that the actual writer is someone else, the prime suspect being noted ghostwriter Donald Bain). What often gets overlooked, except perhaps by devoted fans, is the fact that the series boasts sharply drawn characters and solid plotting. Chang, for example, seems to fall into the Columbo stereotype, but he puts his own agreeable stamp on the notion of relentlessly pursuing the truth. A worthy entry in a deservedly popular series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)

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