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    <body><![CDATA[Another terrific read from Margaret Truman. She, over the years, had become an excellent writer, very knowledgable of Washingtonians and their corruption, politics, influence-peddling, and the like. Her stories are full of intrigue and surprizes, and got better and better through the years. She died...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64205488">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable as always.<br/>I wonder if she actually wrote this.  She died 2 month before publication and was in a care residence prior.<br/>The writing is very timely and &quot;alert.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read one of Margaret Truman's books in a long while.  I am so glad I happened to run across this one.  I will be sure read some of the ones I have missed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Margaret's next to last book before she died this year.<br/><br/>Great Washington Insiders mysteries.<br/><br/>Oh the evil that some Senators (and their lobbyists) do!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ok. stand alone books with some overlapping characters.  average washington political theme.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[President Truman's daughter certainly knows Washington, DC and does a good job with this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love all of the Margaret Truman DC murder mystories and there are alot of them.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scandalous Lobbying firm, in bed with Senator, has senator's wife killed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I'm a mystery fan, and had never read a Margaret Truman Novel, I would frequently get recommendations from friends about her novels.  When I heard recently that she had died i picked this one up at the library.  It was a pleasant suprise, a very well wrtten and crafted mystery.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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&#8211;the kind that corrupts . . . and sometimes kills.<br/><br/>Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner, senior Illinois senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife&#8217;s brutally bludgeoned body. And like any savvy politician with presidential aspirations, his first move is to phone his attorney. In this case, it&#8217;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. <br/><br/> The crime scene is barely cold when the senator&#8217;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.&#8217;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&#8211;and the last person to see the victim alive. But Rotondi harbors his own unsettling suspicions. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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&#8211;where doing the right thing is for fools and taking on the system is a dead man&#8217;s gambit.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It doesn't necessarily take a throng of characters to make a mystery interesting.  However, it did take Margaret Truman's  writing and (in this case) Phil Gigante's reading to make this a very good audio mystery.  My interest was held from the opening to the ending.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Margaret Truman speaks with a knowledge about Washington, D.C., that not many can (and yes, she's related to THAT Truman). Interesting read!]]></body>
    
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