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Murder on Capitol Hill (Capital Crimes)

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The second in Margaret Truman's "Murder in Washington" series is better than the first. In "Murder on Capitol Hill" Truman has a surer grasp of character and plot than in "Murder in the White House", but her research is still done from memory and the story is predictable. Senator Cale Caldwell is murdered at a party, leaving readers a finite number of suspects as heroine lawyer Lydia James leads the investigation. Truman gives us an interesting and well-drawn array of suspects, but most readers will have worked out the plot halfway through.

As in "White House", Truman relies heavily on her Washington memories rather than researching new ones. So instead of interesting and detailed insights into the Senate's back rooms, we get a lot of chats in restaurants and bars. Despite its title, there is very little description of Capitol Hill. Readers interested in juicy insider insights will be disappointed. With a few pen strokes, the book could be set in any city. A quick read, not bad, but lots of room for improvement.

While these books are all similar by title and even general plot, they are all very interesting and still a great read. She really does the political thriller/murder mystery well as her depiction of Washington politics and the peoople involved is very accurate and believable. I am interested to find the twist in each one.

Senator Caldwell is murdered at a party in his honor. Lydia Grant is picked to head a special Senate committee investigating h is death. She comes to believe his death may be connected to that of his foster daughter Jimmye. A decent mystery with some good political flavor.

I have read all of Margaret Truman's books and she is one of my favorite authors. All of her books are set in Washington D.C. and are set in many of the historical landmarks. If you love mystery and love history, you will LOVE this book.

This is the second of 24 Capitol Crimes novels that Margaret Truman wrote, and the fourth one that I read. I have recently completed acuqiring the entire collection and look forward to reading them all.

This book keeps the reader in suspense and makes them want to keep reading, and turning the pages until the very suspenseful ending to find out who killed the victim.

This was my first time reading a book from margaret truman and it was goog she had me thinking hadr to finish the it had ti up and down. she has differnts books by the same name may be next time a will read a differnt book of murders but with a different killer.