Margaret Truman's Capital Crimes series isn't a traditional series that is a continuing saga based on the same main characters, so don't worry about reading them in order.

I am just not much of a mystery fan unless there is a prolific serial killer involved. And though they tried to speculate about a serial killer in this book, there just wasn't enough action and suspense for me in a mystery story.

I've decided that I like police detective stories better than lawyer books and much better than reporters/journalists.

Likes:
* Edith Vargas Swayze, police detective was my favorite character
* Epilogue was my favorite chapter in the book, interesting and covered a lot of ground

Dislikes:
* main character, Joe Wilcox, lying, apathetic, unhappy reporter
* didn't really like any of the main characters
* Michael LaRue, on CD, was really pompous and annoying
* Roberta, Wilcox's daughter, is a TV reporter and she wasn't very appealing either
* story was slow and spent lots of time on Wilcox's personal life, which I didn't really care about
* what happened to Roberta's boyfriend that she was going to marry?

With-reservations:
lying, murder, peeping, blackmail, infidelity, blurred morality

This was not as good as some of the others. It had a phycological thriller component to it and there wasn't as much of the jusicy DC gossip in this. It did manage to keep me turning those pages to find out "Who done it".

Her usual great job. Face it, I love this series.

In the mood for a mystery so rereading some Margaret Truman books.