I picked this up at a little free library and wasn't sure what to expect, but it was very enjoyable. There were lots of possible and plausible murderers to keep things interesting.

(Read by Richard Allan)

Just as the title says, we must figure out the murderer is before he kills the main character.

The descriptions of Washington, D.C. were great. The electricity of the town was aptly portrayed. There were a couple of places, however, that the author seemed to "fit" in place description in an attempt to create mood. However, the method didn't fit in with the voice used in her writing to that point. It was more of a distraction than an aid. The plot was acceptable though not outstanding.

Quite entertaining and a page turner. I figured out who did it quite early, but still enjoyed the book.

I enjoy Truman's work; she knows the geography of the District. She knows the restaurants and always spins a good mystery. Her characters are well developed and believable. ...just fun to read!

This is the 4th straight Washington DC mystery I've read, after three White House chef stories. I enjoyed this novel more than those fine books. The main reason was the characters, you really got to know them. The book is really more of a character study as opposed to a straight mystery. The murder of a loose young female intern is the basis for the story, but we really are not given clues expect for those the detectives uncover, in fact some facts are hidden from the reader. An example is some very important news characters exchange but we don't find out what the news is until the mystery is solved. In a mystery story that would bother me, but in this novel it didn't - too much. Another interesting note, we really don't have a main character. The story shifts back and forth from the two detectives on the case, a lawyer/professor and his wife, a high powered woman who heads Ford's Theatre, a powerful Virginia Senator who was rumored to have an affair with the dead girl, and a has been English actor employed at the theatre. The main suspect, the surly son of the divorced Senator and head of Ford's Theatre, seems too pat to be the killer. The Washington background is well covered. I don't know if Margaret Truman really wrote this or it was ghost written, as claimed, but whoever wrote it did a good job. Not a great mystery, but an interesting and well written story.

This is one of the best Truman Capital Crimes novel I have read. It had a few zany characters and several powerful Washington residents, and the mystery was well executed. Mac Smith briefly resumed his original role of defense attorney to represent a friend's son charged with murder. The book had interesting police officers investigating and all the twists and turns and surprises found in a good murder mystery.

This was a long read. I skipped over various lengthy descriptions and still took me a long time to read. Not a page turner. There were a few twists at the end which redeemed the story.

I have read several in this series by Margaret Truman. They tend to have pop culture versions of feminist thinking in the lead characters, which I have my misgivings about. This one in particular is good for its attention to locational detail.

I volunteer at Ford's Theatre and a visitor mentioned this book, so naturally I had to check it out. It was a bit odd, jumping into a series at #19; I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out which characters had been involved in the previous books in the series. A glance at descriptions tells me that the lawyer-turned-law-professor Mac Smith and his wife were prominently featured in multiple other books; I doubt anyone else in this book was.

A Senate intern/Ford's volunteer is found murdered one morning just behind the theater. There are a handful of good suspects; I appreciate that one of the detectives working the case is frustrated at the focus on the Senator's son to the exclusion of other possibilities. The book was a bit confusing at first; there were a LOT of characters introduced and it took a while to focus in on who would be our main characters for the book.

It was an interesting enough read; I'm not much of a mystery fan, but this was decent. I don't think I liked any of the characters in it, but I enjoyed the portrayal of Washington, DC. Truman goes into a lot of detail--a LOT of detail, most of which we don't necessarily need, but is sometimes fun to read. Sometimes it's just too much. (Also, I can see referring to it as Kramerbooks & Afterwords once, but not twice. Nobody in conversation would say the whole name.) It was amusing seeing the Shakespeare Theatre's Michael Kahn make a cameo. It seems that Washington, DC itself is the connecting link between the books--it's clearly the star. And it's fun remembering what Ford's was like before the renovation in the late 00s.

I didn't care for it, and didn't finish it.

If you want to learn about the Washington DC landmark - Ford's Theatre - this is a fun start. Have never read any of Margaret Truman's mystery/crime books before and this one if the 19th in her Capital Crimes series. Hoping to start with Murder in the Smithsonian next.