Rosalie Curzon, a Washington, D.C., call girl, is found bludgeoned to death in her Adams-Morgan apartment. At the murder scene a video camera is discovered nestled high on a bookshelf. Had the victim taped some of her clients during their sexual liaisons? As the investigation proceeds, so does business inside the Beltway. President Burton Pyle is heatedly running for reelection against consummate politician Robert Colgate, who is expected to win. Colgate, though, is not without cracks in his slick exterior: Rumors swirl about his failing marriage and various dalliances. But no one is prepared for the explosive development that erupts when the daughter of Colgate’s closest friend is kidnapped and Detective Mary Hall and rookie cop Matthew Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the abduction, the Curzon case—and a killer no one will see coming.
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From Publishers Weekly
In the workmanlike 24th and presumably last Capital Crimes novel (after Murder on K Street) from bestseller Truman (1924–2008), the murder of escort Rosalie Curzon, who was savagely beaten before being strangled, panics her many high-powered clients after the local police find she'd been videotaping her sessions. The detectives on the case—Walter Hatcher, a racist dinosaur mulling over retirement, and his two younger assistants, naïve Matt Jackson, who's shocked that some of his colleagues are on the take, and Mary Hall, who's secretly involved with Jackson—are walking clichés. The probe takes on national implications when rumors circulate that presidential challenger Robert Colgate, who's been dogged by allegations of infidelity, was one of Curzon's clients. Readers should be prepared for some clunky prose (e.g., a character's face is described as a series of small, finely chiseled granite blocks covered by a coal-black membrane pulled tight). (Nov.)
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“Truman ‘knows the forks’ in the nation’s capital and how to pitchfork her readers into a web of murder and detection.”
–The Christian Science Monitor
Murder on K Street
“[A] satisfying tale . . . remarkably fresh in its insights about politics, intrigue, money and sex in the city by the Potomac.”
–Raleigh News & Observer
Murder at the Opera
“Bestseller Truman’s twenty-second D.C. mystery [is] one of her strongest. . . . [She] widens her scope to reveal a charming supporting cast. . . . Glimpses of intelligence gathering in the Middle East lend a timely feel.”
–Publishers Weekly
Murder at The Washington Tribune
“Hooks the reader immediately.”
–The Oklahoman
Murder at Union Station
“Truman has produced another knowing look at Washington politics. She, of all people, should know her characters well, and she draws them with style.”
–The Dallas Morning News
From the Hardcover edition.
–The Christian Science Monitor
Murder on K Street
“[A] satisfying tale . . . remarkably fresh in its insights about politics, intrigue, money and sex in the city by the Potomac.”
–Raleigh News & Observer
Murder at the Opera
“Bestseller Truman’s twenty-second D.C. mystery [is] one of her strongest. . . . [She] widens her scope to reveal a charming supporting cast. . . . Glimpses of intelligence gathering in the Middle East lend a timely feel.”
–Publishers Weekly
Murder at The Washington Tribune
“Hooks the reader immediately.”
–The Oklahoman
Murder at Union Station
“Truman has produced another knowing look at Washington politics. She, of all people, should know her characters well, and she draws them with style.”
–The Dallas Morning News
From the Hardcover edition.
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By Rosa "Bookworm" (Detroit,MichiganUSA) - See all my reviews
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Margaret Truman will be greatly missed. But she left the last of her mystery Murder in the Beltway. The best to ever be written. The plot of the story is the murdered of call girl Rosalie. On the surface her murder seems to an act of enraged client. But knowing Washington it has to be more on the surface. You will have an excellent time finding out. It has everything suspense,murder and intrigue.
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Her Last and Perhaps Her Best,
By Jody Lawrence (Los Altos) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Murder Inside the Beltway: A Capital Crimes Novel (Hardcover)
This was an intriguing mystery. The characters were fully delineated, and everything was tied up neatly at the end. For a woman in her 80s, Truman was street-smart and savvy and didn't have to resort to explicit sex and foul language in her mysteries. It's refreshing sometimes to read a book that isn't filled with sex and gore. I'm truly sorry there won't be any more of her books.
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Captures the reader's interest til the end. Too bad the author has since passed away - no more of her great reads .
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