Mac was asked to help an author who wrote a book mentioning that the sitting president had ordered a hit back when he headed the CIA.

So the thing about her books is that they all just kind of end... you keeping waiting for a climax and there isn't one. Like she decides she's written enough words so she can stop now. Again, I knew who did it and why, but there wasn't ever really a confrontation. Also, the I didn't get how the FBI guys were so slow on the uptake when they had wire taps and stuff. One minute they are right there and the next they are asleep missing everything.

Murder at Union Station starts with the shooting of a mobster turned government informer at Union Station in Washington. Trying to meet him is Richard Marienthal, a writer who is penning a book about the mobster’s life. When Marienthal begins to dig into why his book subject was shot to death, he begins to find conspiracies leading to the White House and the old Soviet Union and Castro. In the process, Marienthal becomes a target of the killers and has to go on the run.
This novel is a solidly built mystery that is fairly well written. There is enough intrigue to keep the book moving. I also appreciated the brevity of the novel. There was nothing overly spellbinding or dynamic about the novel, and the characterization wasn’t especially strong. None of the characters are developed enough to be considered captivating, even the main ones. Still, the novel serves the purpose to entertain, and on that basis is worth reading.
Carl Alves – author of Blood Street

So entertaining. Margaret Truman's books are all highly devourable, can't wait to pick up the next one.

Margaret Truman writes engagingly about Washington. The plot here is somewhat transparent but the characters are well-drawn and reflect Washington thinking and Washington speak.

Picked it up at the airport, read it on the plane. I was disappointed. The characters mostly didn't seem that interesting and I felt like the plot didn't really resolve in a satisfying way. Main excuse for this novel seems to be to namedrop as many Washington places as possible. Felt formulaic. Possibly some of the earlier novels in the series are good; this one was tired.

3.5 Louis Russo was murdered in Union Station just as he arrived from Israel to testify at Senate hearings. He had been in the Witness Protection Program & had given interviews to a writer for a book on a mob killing many years before (his reason for being in the WPP). There were a lot of people in this book, it dragged for the first third, at least. When it finally got going, wasn't too bad, but the ending didn't appeal to me.

I enjoyed this one; perhaps I’m getting my reading mojo back for the year finally, but I had that, “Can’t wait for time to go read” feelings again the last 2 days.

It's just a murder mystery--nothing amazing, but I do like the way Margaret Truman writes, and particularly her obvious knowledge of Washington, D.C. I believe this is the 20th of her books set in one place or another in D.C., and they can be quite interesting.

Our favorite characters, Mac and Annabel are in the background this time, leaving us with characters for whom we don't really care, or have we just learned NOT to care for people who work in politics.

Interesting Washington DV mystery!

Great read! Include excellent writing and some kinda plot twist in how the storyline is played out -- highly recommend to everyone (paperback!)