Murder Inside the Beltway (Capital Crimes Series) [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Margaret Truman (Author), Patrick Lawlor (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2008 | Series: Capital Crimes Series (Book 24)

Rosalie Curzon, a Washington, D.C., call girl, is found bludgeoned to death in her Adams-Morgan apartment. The murder scene is in a disturbing state of disarray, suggesting that Rosalie had fought to the bitter end. The cops discover a video camera 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 running for reelection. His opponent, consummate politician Robert Colgate, is expected to easily defeat Pyle, whose administration has been rife with corruption and scandal. Colgate, though, is not without cracks in his slick exterior. Rumors swirl about his failing marriage and various dalliances. Moreover, there’s no love lost between the two candidates: The campaign has morphed into one of the most distasteful and nasty in memory. Then, on a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of Colgate’s closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation’s capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when the police uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the Curzon case – and a killer whom no one will see coming.

Editorial Reviews

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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Review

“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 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged; Unabridged edition (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423367154
• ISBN-13: 978-1423367154
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #870,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Legacy of Fine Reading, January 13, 2009

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Rosa "Bookworm" (Detroit,MichiganUSA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder Inside the Beltway: A Capital Crimes Novel (Hardcover)

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.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Her Last and Perhaps Her Best, December 15, 2008

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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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book, December 16, 2008

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This review is from: Murder Inside the Beltway: A Capital Crimes Novel (Hardcover)

Captures the reader's interest til the end. Too bad the author has since passed away - no more of her great reads .