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The book centers around the Washington Tribute where a young female journalist has just been strangled. Joe Wilcox, an older journalist is investigating who has committed the murder and will stop at nothing, no matter how low, to find out the truth. As Wilcox is being pushed slowly out of hi job he tries to reinvent himself as a top notch reporter and risks his job as well as his family and personal relationships.
I found this book to be boring and it dragged slowly.

stumbled across this book while traveling and finished the book I had brought. Liked her dad as a president (history books not personal life) so thought I would give her writing a try. Liked it quite a bit.

I am a big fan of Margaret Truman but this book was just bad. The lead characters were unlikeable. Halfway through the book I knew who the murderer was, but the lead character had never looked in that direction even though he had huge clues to follow! Not a very good journalist if he can’t follow where the story leads. A big disappointment.

I had never read a Margaret Truman mystery, and I started out liking this one quite a bit. The main character's struggle to come up with a "big story" at the end of his career seemed realistic, and when the murder occurs right at his newspaper, the possibility seemed plausible. His disappointment in his own career is exacerbated by the arrogance of a hotshot young reporter eager to show him up and his ambivalence about his daughter's growing success as a TV reporter. Add to that his relationship with a detective, and there's the making of a good story. But then Truman adds one more plot twist after another, each more implausible than the first. I won't say more because I don't want to spoil the story, but family history plus unethical journalistic practices get Joe Wilcox into increasingly complex dilemmas. The ending seems almost too good to be true considering his questionable actions. First and last Margaret Truman mystery for me.

The story line at times was slow, but the ending was a bit of a surprise. Not what I was expecting. I enjoy Margaret Truman's mysteries as they are set around Washington DC.

A reporter for the Washington Tribune, getting on towards retirement, forges a letter to himself saying it's from the serial killer.

This was so very slow, dry, and anticlimactic at the end. She went through all this work to create this whole story just to end it that way.

I usually really like Margaret Truman's books but this one was just OK.

I've read many her Murder books. By far, this is the best!! Is there such a thing as edge of your seat reading? Wasn't sure who was the culprit until the end. I love it.

Not my kind of book but fun for a change. Nice light mystery. good summer read to pass the time but not very intelligent. Flat characters. Overly dramatic, etc.

zomg fake news and muuuuuuurder. Mostly fake news. Minimal exposure to the Annoyingly Charming and Resourceful Protagonist Pair that this series often features, though, so it's a nice change of pace.