Murder in the White House - A Capital Crimes Novel

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Truman has won faithful readers with her works of biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital Crimes mysteries. Her novels usher us into the corridors of power and privilege, poverty and pageantry, in the nation's capital. She lives in Manhattan. Klappentext In a town where the weapon of choice is usually a well-aimed rumor, the strangling of Secretary of State Lansard Blaine in the Lincoln Bedroom is a gruesome first. White House counsel Ron Fairbanks is ordered to investigate. There are persistent rumors that the Secretary was an accomplished womanizer with ties to a glamorous call girl. There is also troubling evidence of unofficial connections with international wheeler-dealers. In death as in life, Blaine is a power to be reckoned with. For Fairbanks, who loves the President's daughter, one point is soon clear: only a few highly placed insiders had access to the Lincoln Bedroom that fateful evening. And one of them was the President. . . . Zusammenfassung The first book in the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes series, in which a lawyer must investigate the murder of the Secretary of State under mysterious circumstances.  In a town where the weapon of choice is usually a well-aimed rumor, the strangling of Secretary of State Lansard Blaine in the Lincoln Bedroom is a gruesome first. White House counsel Ron Fairbanks is ordered to investigate. There are persistent rumors that the Secretary was an accomplished womanizer with ties to a glamorous call girl. There is also troubling evidence of unofficial connections with international wheeler-dealers. In death as in life, Blaine is a power to be reckoned with. For Fairbanks, who loves the President's daughter, one point is soon clear: only a few highly placed insiders had access to the Lincoln Bedroom that fateful evening. And one of them was the President. . . . ...

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Truman
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780062391711
• ISBN: 978-0-06-239171-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Capital Crimes; Capital Crimes
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Thrillers / Political, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Paranormal