| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Truman Makes Some Rookie Mistakes,
By richard_t "richard_t" (Overseas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Murder in the White House (Paperback)
"Murder in the White House" is the first in the otherwise good 'Murder in Washington' series. Truman hasn't yet shown her best chops. Relying mostly on her personal recollections of White House, she crafts a reasonably good story, albeit with a predictable solution. Most readers will have guessed the President's big 'secret' fifty pages before the protagonists do. The inside scoop on White House is, not surprisingly, the strongest element. The rest is sodden and a bit weak. Truman shows no knowledge at all of the State Dept, guessing that the Secretary of State has a receptionist and a telephone log, as though the Department is run like a high school principal's office. Other agency heads, the Director of the FBI, CIA, etc. seem to be go-fers. Even our hero Ron, the President's Special Counsel, fails to spark much interest. He seems to be an okay guy, but is flat and undeveloped as a character. Truman didn't do her homework for this book, and she hasn't yet developed as a solid writer - either for plot or characterization. As a first effort in a series that gets much stronger over the years, Murder in the White House is not too bad.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Moderately entertaining,
By
This review is from: Murder in the White House (Capital Crimes) (Mass Market Paperback)
The first book in Margaret Truman's Capital Crimes series is moderately entertaining, but no more. The Secretary of State is killed in the White House; the President appoints his inexperienced Junior Counsel to head up the investigation. There's a lot of talk, an action sequence, some more talk, another murder, some more talk, and then it all ends rather hurriedly.The book's main strength is the way it hints that bigger, darker things are at stake. But it has no real sense of urgency or structure. For example: couldn't the investigators have made a list of all people who had access to the relevant part of the White House at the relevant time, and worked through them one by one? Instead, they seem to be poking around at random. You can never tell whether or not they're really making progress. Another example: the hero didn't vote for the President, has no investigative experience, and yet is put in charge of the investigation. This could be a fascinating hook to explore the President's mixed motivations and the hero's ambition, but it too goes nowhere. The characterization throughout is fairly flat, with only the central puzzle holding the reader's attention. Oh, and... I guessed the murderer, and more or less the motive. Fun, and somewhat atmospheric just by virtue of its setting, but by no means great.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Wonderful Adventure at the White House,
By
This review is from: Murder in the White House (Capital Crimes) (Mass Market Paperback)
Margaret Truman has done it again ! This work is set at our nation's most secure home, the White House. Yet a murder happens within the secure walls and the Secret Sevice is out of the loop in trying to solve the mystery. The reader is taken on a clever journey of suspects and situations, each one which seems likely to lead to the solution of the crime. However a first family secret unknown to but a very few of the characters plays a major part in solving the crime. Without saying more, this story is one a reader will not want to put down until reaching the last few pages where the startling conclusion is revealed.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
See all 7 books this book cites
See all 12 books citing this book
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
