Max Pauling is on the case when a murder occurs at Foggy Bottom State Departments headquarters occurs at almost the same time as two airplane crashes.

I enjoyed this authors writing; the story had a few too many coincidences in the characters but it was a story that kept pace. I didn’t feel as though I knew enough of the character back stories- that felt like a rush job, but I thought the premise and story line were good, and the ending was a little unexpected.

Published in 2000, this was strangely prophetic, accurately predicting what we saw happen with the country after 9-11, and describing hate groups that we've seen since then.

GREAT READ

GREAT READ

This book was another great mystery by Ttruman. My only complaint is that she has so many characters that I have to back up occasionally and 'remember who is who.

A contrast to A Capitol Crime, both cover similar territory, but this one with more style and depth. A good, fast paced thriller.

(Read by Alan Sklar)

A Canadian murdered in Foggy Bottom is the key to the terrorist acts involving shooting down planes. I was lost - I think it was due to the abridgement. Not lost, just unexcited. COuld've been extremely exciting...

This book was a page turner and reminded me of more recent happenings in the United States. Three small passenger planes exploded in 3 different areas of the country around the same time killing all aboard, and 2 eyewitnesses described seeing something resembling a missile hit 2 of the planes right before they crashed. The book deals with representatives of the different agencies like FBI and CIA seeking to learn who was responsible and hopefully to prevent a fourth plane crash. Reporters hot on the story are also involved. A cast of interesting characters make up the story and have facts in their individual lives that contribute in different ways. The book is set in Washington's Foggy Bottom and also Moscow, Russia. Undercover agents are involved in the investigation. Series regulars, Mac and Annabel Smith, are mentioned in the story because they live in DC but have no role in the investigation.

Kept my interest throughout although it did bog down a bit in the middle with lots of details.

One thing I didn't like was the gratuitous sprinkling of the happily married couple, Mackensie and Annabell. What's that about?

A good one; contemporary. Particularly interesting in view of the fact that it was published in 2000.

The story begins with the murder of a Canadian diplomat in a park in Foggy Bottom, DC. Within 48 hours, three planes are shot out of the sky, and a whole pile of proverbial poo hits the fan. The story leaps from DC to the Pacific Northwest to Moscow, deals with a religious cult, environmental fanatics, terrorists, and everything in between. Throw in a couple of love stories and a vindictive ex-husband, and you've got Murder in Foggy Bottom

This book really lost me. I was not into it at all. Michael loved it. To me, it was just so, so scattered and way too all over the place. That's more or less all I have to say about it. I don't recommend it, but I'm sure Michael would!

This mystery was written later than the last few I have read and it's easy to see how her writing progressed. I shouldn't be reading them out of order [against what I always say I'm going to do] but I started these on a trip and had to read what the library had on Kindle and the ones I could find in the used book stores that our library doesn't have a copy of.

All of her books have a great plot and gives history and political information in her stories. I love mystery and history so they are right up my alley. In addition they are easy and quick reads and keep my attention.

Foggy Bottom? This is not about some place in the backwoods. I am told it's currently an area in Washington, D.C. where you will find such nice places as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, George Washington University, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. State Department, and Watergate. A nice place to live, but that area wasn't always so nice. Originally the low-lying swampy area was more industrial with a large brewery, a glass factory, and some very bad slums. Because it was a low-lying swamp, there was heavy fog, thus Foggy Bottom. The story begins with a well dressed Canadian found murdered there. Not robbed, but stabbed with a knife. So why was he killed? We'll find out later, much later.

One by one, we read that three small commuter planes have fallen out of the sky in three very separate locations - the east coast, the midwest, and the west coast, in that order - brought down by handheld missiles. They don't know if it's foreign or domestic terrorism. At this point, I stopped reading to check the date that this book was published because I knew it was an older one. Was this story written after September 11, 2001? No - it was published the year BEFORE that - 2000! Stunning! Three planes....over the U.S.....terrorists. Chilling for me.
The rest of the book is about the search for information - who did it, foreign or domestic, who provided the weapons....and, of course, the whole time trying to keep the public in the dark. Good characters through the story, some ongoing throughout this Capital Crimes series. I especially liked the hardnosed newspaper man, Joe Potamos, who pursued the unanswered questions about that Canadian killed earlier in Foggy Bottom - quite a character.

Margaret Truman wrote interesting books about a subject she knew well - politics and power. Many books of this nature have been written over many years and nothing seems to change - only the names are changed "to protect the innocent" (and the guilty, I might add). The more we know about it, the more depressing and upsetting it is....at least for me.