Murder in Georgetown

Who knows the ins and outs of the Capital like the daughter of the Trumans? Every Capital Crimes Mystery is a winner...not a boring book in the bunch. That goes for every single one I've purchased! I'll end up reading them all.

If you didn't already know it, the daughter of our 33rd president is quite the successful mystery writer. All of her books take place in and around the Washington. D.C. area and involve government figures and the temptations involved with power. In this book the daughter of a powerful senator with Presidential ambitions is killed in a park after embarrassing her father at a socialite party with her lewd and suggestive dancing. Is it the father, enraged by the threat to his candidacy? Is it a jealous ex-boyfriend? Is it a jealous classmate from her Georgetown University journalism seminar? Reporter Joe Potamos is on the case but is suddenly fired when he gets to close to the answer. Too late - his curiosity drives him on. This is a decent mystery - the main characters are solid and likeable.

I'm a big fan of armchair-type mysteries, as well as novels about political intrigue. And this one is about as good as it gets. Margaret Truman was the daughter of a President, so of course she has a firm grasp of the culture of Washington's movers and shakers. And she can spin a captivating and well-constructed yarn with the best of them. The main character here is a newspaper reporter who has had the bad luck (or bad judgment) to cross some of Washington's most powerful people. Now his efforts to unravel the murder of the young daughter of another Washington figure threaten to make him even more unpopular with the Establishment. Truman plays fair with the reader all the way, never tipping her hand, and the mystery comes to a completely satisfying ending (although, as in all mysteries, the killer is never the guy you WANT it to be!). Fans of cozy mysteries or political intrigue novels can't do better than this one.

Murder in Georgetown By Margaret Truman was one of the most exciting mysteries I have read in a long time. The plot of the book kept me on the edge of my seat. The characters in the book I found to be very interesting. Joe Patamos was the most interesting of them all. I did find it kind of odd that a small time newspaper writer like Joe would be going around trying to solve the case on one of the biggest murders in Georgetown like he was a cop but, on the other hand it was very interesting. I loved the way that Margaret Truman kept changing my point of view of who I thought the killer was by giving many different views of what was going on. Right of the back I had no doubt in my mind that Valorie Frolich was killed by her own dad. As the book went along my opinion changed a lot as I learned more about her and the people should hung around with. Throughout the whole book I changed my thought on who killed her at least ten times. That is the main reason that I loved this book because it was not like some mysteries I have read in the past where the killer is so obvious. I would suggest this book to anyone who loves reading mysteries because the surprise ending will shock just about anyone. cass pd5 cj