I'd actually give this 3 1/2 stars. Don't know what i expected, but it was fun being taken around Washington D.C. , and I thought it ironic that the character "Russo" had the same last name as the "Mob Mayor of Philly", back in (I think it was) the 60's. I would read another Truman novel.

It was an interesting read, chock-full of politics and location/people name dropping. It left you asking questions about our government and how they are potentially involved in minute details mentioned on the news...

More build up than the weak ending deserved...lost momentum in last 40 pages.

Book opens with an assassination, but honestly, it doesn't reach that peak again.

It was just okay and I needed a book set in Washington DC for a challenge and I'd listen to another one for a challenge, but I'm not going to do it for fun.

It seemed like too many inconsequential characters kept appearing and it didn't engage me. The ending was anticlimactic and I was just disappointed with the book in general. It wasn't terrible, it just wasn't compelling.

I couldn't finish. The plot just circulated around a mysterious character for 200+ pages. The author just kept repeated 90% of the same mysterious "facts" by using different characters to repeat them. Super boring. Thought it would get better but I really should have quit after the rule of 100.

(Rule of 100 = take 100 and subtract your age. That's how many pages you should read before deciding if the book is worth continuing.)

Read ALL of her Capital Crimes books. 
Enjoyed and learned something from a "Washington Insider" about various venues. 
Noticed I hadn't recorded all of them from years past. 

Read in 2006

This is an entertaining book. The characters are interesting. It isn't so much a murder mystery as a story about political machinations.

She's a well-known British mystery writer, but this was dreck, even for genre fiction.

Good read to kill time. . . . . .

A little confusing at times and some parts were left unfinished it felt. Not her best.

I certainly enjoyed reading Murder at Union Station, and now I want to read Margaret Truman's other books.

Murder at Union Station spins around roughly 20 characters, all drawn in picturesque detail -- what color shirt, what color tie, what flavor of ice cream and booze -- with two main adversaries circling each other, without actually knowing each other. (They briefly meet, for just one step.) We get to know everyone from the highly-observant shoe-shine man at Union Station to the President of the United States. A well-detailed U.S. Senator lurks off-stage -- we never actually see him, but he's an important presence. What we DO see, however, are realistic picture of mid-range character who could actually exist.

We expect them all to collide at the end ... and then it doesn't happen. The suspense up to that point is real, then the story ends abruptly. Too bad. I would have liked to see the Senator, maybe Senate hearing that drives the book forward but never quite happens.

Nonetheless, 90% of something good is still something good. I'll give it four stars.