Murder at Union Station (Capital Crimes)

Truman, Margaret

3.62

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9781469243474: Murder at Union Station (Capital Crimes)

ISBN 10: 1469243474 ISBN 13: 9781469243474

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2012

Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what will turn out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C.—on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer. Two men are at the station to meet him. One is Richard Marienthal, a young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo’s life. The other is the man who’ll kill him.

Russo has returned to help promote Marienthal’s book, which, although no one has been allowed to read it, already has some people shaking in their Gucci boots. Those in power fear that the contents will expose not only organized crime’s nefarious business but also a top-secret assignment abroad that Russo once masterminded for a very-high-profile Capitol Hill client. As news of Russo’s murder rockets from the MPD to the FBI and the CIA, from Congress to the West Wing, the final chapter of the story begins its rapid-fire unfolding.

In addition to the bewildered Marienthal and his worried girlfriend, Murder at Union Station features an array of memorable characters: rock-ribbed right-wing Senator Karl Widmer; ruthless New York publisher Pamela Warren; boozy MPD Detective Bret Mullin; shoe-shine virtuoso Joe Jenks; dedicated presidential political adviser Chet Fletcher; and President Adam Parmele himself—not to mention freelance snoops, blow-dried climbers, and a killer or two. There’s no place like the nation’s capital, and as her myriad fans know, Margaret Truman always gets it right. Murder at Union Station is a luxury express, nonstop delight.

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Review:

Praise for Margaret Truman and "Murder at Ford' s Theatre"
" Dead-on descriptions of Washington' s most crack-ridden streets and exclusionary shindigs . . . Readers who enjoy travelogue, gossip, and social commentary in their whodunits will enjoy "Murder at Ford' s Theatre,""
- "USA Today"
" Truman can write suspense with the best of them."
- LARRY KING
" 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
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" Truman combines her insider' s knowledge of life inside the beltway with a writing skill that grows more sophisticated and lively every year. . . . Let' s hope that . . . Truman has another book in the works."
- "The Advocate" (Baton Rouge, LA)

"From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for Margaret Truman and "Murder at Ford's Theatre"
"Dead-on descriptions of Washington's most crack-ridden streets and exclusionary shindigs . . . Readers who enjoy travelogue, gossip, and social commentary in their whodunits will enjoy "Murder at Ford's Theatre.""
-"USA Today"
"Truman can write suspense with the best of them."
-LARRY KING
"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
"
"Truman combines her insider's knowledge of life inside the beltway with a writing skill that grows more sophisticated and lively every year. . . . Let's hope that . . . Truman has another book in the works."
-"The Advocate" (Baton Rouge, LA)

"From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for Margaret Truman and Murder at Ford's Theatre

"Dead-on descriptions of Washington's most crack-ridden streets and exclusionary shindigs . . . Readers who enjoy travelogue, gossip, and social commentary in their whodunits will enjoy Murder at Ford's Theatre."
-USA Today

"Truman can write suspense with the best of them."
-LARRY KING

"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

"Truman combines her insider's knowledge of life inside the beltway with a writing skill that grows more sophisticated and lively every year. . . . Let's hope that . . . Truman has another book in the works."
-The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

Margaret Truman has won faithful readers with her works of biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital Crimes mysteries. Her novels let us into the corridors of power and privilege, poverty and pageantry, in the nation's capital. Her new work of nonfiction is The President's House. She lives in Manhattan.

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