Mac and Annabelle are drawn into the murder of a former enforcer.

The sitting president is accused of ordering the murder of a sitting Chilean president while head of the CIA. A former enforcer of the Mob claimed to have been the hit man and hired a Ghost Writer to write his story. A right wing Senator who has made it his life to not let the sitting president see a second term is doing all he can to get the book published.
Guerin Barry does a good job and telling the story.

quick read, total trash, but lots of DC sites that i know and love

I generally find her mystery books pretty fun reads with a mini US government lesson along the way. But this was just ok. I enjoyed Murder at Foggy Bottom more. . . And while I did find interesting the character's struggle to get a novel published. . . the outcome wasn't too believable.

3.5 stars.

This book was disappointing.

MURDER AT UNION STATION

MURDER AT UNION STATION

Another exciting mystery with red herrings galore. One can learn much about the D.C.landscape and life in our capitol from reading these stories by Truman.

This is the first book I've read by this author. She has a whole slew of books and I think I will look for a few more. I liked how she presented each character and then wove them into the story. POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT I thought the fall guy set up came a little late, but perhaps I missed an earlier clue. I also thought the ending was a little rushed and perhaps a bit unrealistic in the setting of the novel.

But, overall I liked the book and enjoyed reading it.

Another episode of Washington politico and power games to gain control of the nation's high offices.

Truman is always good.

I will preface by saying I like Margaret Truman's books. I love traveling into Union Station.

She mentions monuments, streets and restaurants you may know and that makes it fun. This was a good story and I'd recommend it to murder fiction writers who don't like too much gore but enjoy unraveling the tale.

I want to like Margaret Truman's books but this is the second of hers I have tried to read; I finished the first but didn't really like it, and I couldn't finish this. Not sure what I didn't like except I think I find the characters to be a bit pretentious. This one involves the murder at Union Station of a man who is integral to a book project being written by the main character. I like the descriptions of Union Station but the plot didn't grab me.

A former Mafia hit man allegedly carried out a contract assassination of a South American dictator based on the orders of the head of an American intelligence service. Following his arrest, he agrees to be a government witness in exchange for being included in the witness protection program as a citizen of a foreign country. Twenty years later, when he is in his 80’s, he agrees to relate his story to a writer, who plans a fictional account of what is related to him on numerous audio tapes as well as the notes he took during the interviews. He is convinced by the chief advisor of a powerful senator that the book should come out as non-fiction instead of a novel and that the assassin should come testify before a Senate hearing of the involvement of the former intelligence service head, who has now moved into a very high-level elected position.

When the “witness-protected” former hit man, arrives in Washington for the hearings, he is assassinated. Within a few hours of his death, his assassin is also killed. The presumption is that each of the deaths is the result of Mafia contracts. Since the original hit man can no longer testify, the tapes and notes become a critical piece of evidence and very much a “hot-potato” for the novelist turned non-fiction writer, who is on the run from several groups who will not stop until they have the tapes.

This was a reasonably good murder-mystery but a bit too convoluted and confusing for me. I give it a very luke-warm recommendation.

[Book 29 of 2013 Target 50
(Jan-6; Feb-3; Mar-3; Apr-4; May-6; Jun-6; Jul-1)]