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(0)Margaret Truman
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 2
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When 200 people from Washington gather at a cocktail reception for Senate Majority Leader Cale Caldwell, they are horrified to find the guest of honor with an icepick through his chest. Lawyer Lydia James is called upon by the widow to act as special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating Caldwell's murder. When her prime suspect turns out to be Caldwell's son, Mark, whose past involves an unsolved murder and participation in a religious...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 7
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
When the corpse of a young woman is found floating down Washington's C&O Canal, everyone is shocked to learn the victim is none other than Valerie Frolich-a senator's daughter, Georgetown graduate, and a rising star in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism.
Washington Post reporter Joe Potamos is good at unearthing the skeletons in the nation's capital, so when he's assigned the Frolich story, he immediately senses this case is rife with...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 1
Publisher
Fawcett Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Who better to write a political thriller than the daughter of a president? Margaret Truman's first book in the Capital Crimes series, Murder in the White House, takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the public halls of power and the private corridors of the White House. When the Secretary of State is found murdered in the Lincoln bedroom, Ron Fairbanks, special counsel to the president and secret suitor of presidential daughter Lynne, is appointed...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 4
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
[1983,]
Language
English
Description
Take yourself on a journey into the world of international art dealers and museum curators, European castles and the White House. Margaret Truman's Murder in the Smithsonian tangles readers in an international plot that spans continents and governments. When Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian, is boldly murdered during a posh black-tie affair at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington is set spinning with intrigue. DC Police Captain Mac Hanrahan takes...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 16
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
The Washington art gallery owner, Annabel Smith, investigates the blackmarket in rare books. This follows several murders, connected to an attempt to obtain a journal of the voyage of Columbus to the New World.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 25
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Brixton takes on a twenty-year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite-- and right into the lap of a secret government organizations that been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 23
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008, ©2007
Language
English
Description
When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife brutally murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the scandalous and dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship to find a killer.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 14
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998, ©1997
Language
English
Description
In Washington, a congressman is accused of sexual harassment by a staffer. When the staffer is killed, police turn their attention to the congressman, only to see him killed and his daughter kidnaped. Sleuthing law professor Mac Smith uncovers an influence-peddling Russian connection.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 31
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The nation's first female vice president is dead. The public, including international investigator Robert Brixton, believes it was natural causes, complications related to a long-hidden heart condition. Kendra Rendine, head of Vice President Stephanie Davenport's Secret Service security detail, covertly approaches Brixton to look deeper into Davenport's death. Brixton discovers that a rumored affair between Vice President Davenport and President...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 32
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"2002: A military transport on a secret run to dispose of its deadly contents vanishes without a trace. The present: A mass shooting on the steps of the Capitol nearly claims the life of Robert Brixton's grandson. No stranger to high-stakes investigations, Brixton embarks on a trail to uncover the motive behind the shooting. On the way he finds himself probing the attempted murder of the daughter his best friend, who works at the Washington offices...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 27
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
"Laura is a young intern in Washington, D.C., working for handsome and likable Congressman Hal Gannon. Laura falls for the charming Gannon, but when she catches a stewardess at Gannon's apartment, she vows to destroy him. Private investigator Robert Brixton is a former cop who has also worked for the FBI. When Laura goes missing, Brixton is hired by Laura's family to gain insight into the case that the police might have missed. Brixton tracks down...