Murder in Foggy Bottom
Capital Crimes Series: Book #17
- By: Margaret Truman
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Description
In Margaret Truman's latest mystery, the scene opens with an obscure death in Washington's Foggy Bottom, home of the State Department, shifts to mass murder in the downing of aircraft, and then moves on to mayhem in the streets of the new Moscow. Leaving an airport near New York, a D.C.-bound commuter plane falls to earth. At almost the same time, another crash occurs. And then... Firmly ruling out coincidence, investigators seek means and motive. The means are soon apparent: small-scale weaponry with large-scale impact. Their country of origin? A place where nearly everything - hardware, information, love - can be found for a price. Max Pauling, a State Department investigator, seasoned, good-looking, and hard to fool, quickly takes off on a trail still as warm as the smoking wreckage. A host of vivid characters people the narrative, including a lovely State Department analyst who finds herself attracted to undercover types; a militia leader in Idaho who leads his people into gunfire; a reporter at odds with his boss but not with a good story; and a secretary of state who loves baseball slightly more than her job. Fast-paced and informative about flying, food, statecraft, and the violent "wetwork" under the dryly elegant exterior of diplomacy, Margaret Truman's Murder in Foggy Bottom is another winner in the Capital Crimes series. Praise for Margaret Truman "A first-rate mystery writer, said Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "drawing on an I-was-there expertise that makes the Washington scene clang with credibility." "She can write suspense with the best of them," says Larry King. Her work is "the most satisfying sort of popular fiction, a thoughtful thriller," adds The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Capital Crimes Series Series
Murder in Foggy Bottom
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In Margaret Truman's latest mystery, the scene opens with an obscure death in Washington's Foggy Bottom, home of the State Department, shifts to mass murder in the downing of aircraft, and then moves on to mayhem in the streets of the new Moscow. Leaving an airport near New York, a D.C.-bound commuter plane falls to earth. At almost the same... Read more »
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Murder at Ford's Theatre
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for Senator Bruce Lerner - and who volunteered at Ford's - is discovered in the alley behind the theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched cops - young, studious Rick Klayman and gregarious veteran Moses "Mo" Johnson - start digging into the victim's life, and find themselves confronting... Read more »
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Murder at Union Station
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Guerin Barry
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what will turn out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C.—on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Peter’s Gate. This weary traveler, whose terminal destination is probably hell, is Louis Russo, former mob hit man and... Read more »
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Murder at The Washington Tribune
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From senators to summer interns, from all the president’s men to all-powerful women, Margaret Truman captures the fascinating, high-wire drama of Washington, D.C., like no other writer. Now this master of mystery fiction takes us into the capital’s chaotic fourth estate. At the big, aggressive newspaper The Washington Tribune, a young woman has... Read more »
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Murder at the Opera
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings…but the show hasn’t even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano in question, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, was scarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when the aspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly takes center... Read more »
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Murder on K Street
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Phil Gigante
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner, senior Illinois senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife’s brutally bludgeoned body. And like any savvy politician with presidential aspirations, his first move is to phone his attorney. In this case, it’s his old friend and college roommate, former DA Philip Rotondi, who gamely agrees to step out of... Read more »
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Murder Inside the Beltway
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Rosalie Curzon, a Washington, D.C., call girl, is found bludgeoned to death in her Adams-Morgan apartment. The murder scene is in a disturbing state of disarray, suggesting that Rosalie had fought to the bitter end. The cops discover a video camera nestled high on a bookshelf. Had the victim taped some of her clients during their sexual... Read more »
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Monument to Murder
By: Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a 20 year-old murder case, he figures he’s got nothing to lose. It’s not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah’s power elite, and right into the lap of a secret government organization that’s been offing... Read more »
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Experiment in Murder
By: Donald Bain & Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Margaret Truman thrills again with Experiment in Murder, a riveting installment in the Capital Crimes series!
A Washington psychiatrist is killed in a hit-and-run on the street in front of his office. Suspicion quickly focuses on one of the doctor’s patients, and Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend her. Then information emerges that links the... Read more »
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Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger
By: Margaret Truman & Donald Bain
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
PI Robert Brixton is back in Margaret Truman’s Allied in Danger, Donald Bain’s next installment in the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes series
David Portland works security for America’s British Embassy in London. His life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary... Read more »
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Undiplomatic Murder
By: Donald Bain & Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter, Janet, for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a... Read more »
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Deadly Medicine
By: Donald Bain & Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it?
Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a... Read more »
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Internship in Murder
By: Donald Bain & Margaret Truman
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Laura is a young intern in Washington, D.C., working for handsome and likable Congressman Hal Gannon. Laura falls for the charming Gannon, but when she catches a stewardess at Gannon’s apartment, she vows to destroy him.
Private investigator Robert Brixton is a former cop who has also worked for the FBI. When Laura goes missing, Brixton is hired... Read more »
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