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Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008
Subjects
Legislators -- United States -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Police -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Lobbyists -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
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Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008
Legislators -- United States -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Police -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Lobbyists -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
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Murder
on
K
Street
: a
capital
crimes
novel
/ Margaret Truman.
by
Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008
Ballantine Books, c2007.
Call #:
FICTION TRU
Subjects
Legislators -- United States --
Crimes
against -- Fiction.
Police -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Lobbyists -- Fiction.
Political corruption -- Fiction.
Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
Series
Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008-
Capital
crimes
series ; 23.
ISBN:
9780345498861 (acid-free paper)
9780345498878 (2008 pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
318 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"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."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Mystery fiction.
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