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	• Murder on K Street: A Capital Crimes Novel (Capital Crimes) Margaret Truman Ballantine Books, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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This is Truman's 23rd Capital Crimes novel so one may perhaps forgive her for offering what seemed to this listener to be a retreaded material. There's little to surprise in the story line but pleasure to be found in the reading by actor/director/producer Phil Gigante. His voice is deep, resonant, falls easily upon ears as he moves easily between characters.

Our story opens with senior Senator Lyle Simmons returning home after a fundraiser. His homecoming is a shocking one as he finds his wife, Jeanette, brutally murdered. Does he call 911? Of course, not. He immediately contacts his friend and attorney, former District Attorney Philip Rotondi. After all, Simmons has presidential aspirations, and a murdered wife isn't an asset in most campaigns.

Rotondi lost Jeanette to Simmons during college years and also knows that the Simmons marriage, well, while it may have been made in heaven, it was hell on earth.

Now, toss in a daughter with no love for dear old dad Simmons and a passel of devious lobbyists at work, and there you have it.

Easy listening - fair to middlin' story line.

- Gail Cooke

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Murder on K Street

M. Truman has written one of her best books - it held my attention. The story moved right along without being too wordy and praising the cast too much which she had done in past novels saying cast members were too perfect. The story had good detail and good description. Yes, it was not too short and not too long.

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MURDER ON K STREET

Good book, keeps moving and although the moment you realize a lobby group is involved, you know that they are probably the bad guys, however, it keeps your interest and has a good ending.

Excellent Political Drama

This is truly Margaret Truman's Best. It has everything suspense,drama and lots of intrigue. It's starts with the murder of Jeanette Simmons the senator wife and also Rotondi friend. There's suspects galore! There Annabel and Mac Smith who aides in the investigation. This is truly a great political drama one you won't be able to put down.

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Not Impressed

Some years back we started reading this series when it first became available. I probably disagree with my wife on this one, but I did not find it as enjoyable to read as the earlier books in the series. Perhaps it is just being tired of the political scene as well as the change character focus.

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Nobody knows the crooked turns, slippery slopes, and dark, dangerous stretches of the Beltway better than Margaret Truman, dean of the Washington, D.C., mystery scene. And no one is better equipped to lead a suspenseful tour into the treacherous territory of big-time political lobbying, where the right information and enough influence can buy power?the kind that corrupts . . . and sometimes kills.

Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner, senior Illinois senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife?s brutally bludgeoned body. And like any savvy politician with presidential aspirations, his first move is to phone his attorney. In this case, it?s his old friend and college roommate, former DA Philip Rotondi, who gamely agrees to step out of quiet retirement and into the thick of a D.C.-style political, criminal, and public relations maelstrom from which no one will escape unscathed.

The crime scene is barely cold when the senator?s estranged daughter arrives hurling shocking allegations of murder at her father, despite a roomful of well-heeled witnesses who can provide Simmons with an alibi. Meanwhile, D.C.?s rumor mills and spin machines shift into high gear as speculation swirls around a tabloid- and TV-ready prime suspect: Jonell Marbury, a dashing lawyer turned lobbyist at a powerful K Street firm?and the last person to see the victim alive. But Rotondi harbors his own unsettling suspicions.

And after a second woman is killed, he discovers that a long-buried secret from his past may hold the key to cracking the case.

Aided by sleuthing ex-attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, Rotondi reawakens the prosecutorial skills that served him so well in his gang-busting days, following the stench of dirty money and dirtier tricks across the country and across the thresholds of back rooms and front offices alike?where doing the right thing is for fools and taking on the system is a dead man?s gambit.

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