Capital crimes series

When 200 people from Washington gather at a cocktail reception for Senate Majority Leader Cale Caldwell, they are horrified to find the guest of honor with an icepick through his chest. Lawyer Lydia James is called upon by the widow to act as special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating Caldwell's murder. When her prime suspect turns out to be Caldwell's son, Mark, whose past involves an unsolved murder and participation in a religious...

A brilliant historian is brutally murdered during a glittering black-tie affair at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Art.

An FBI agent is found dead on the FBI firing range. Ross Lizenby and Christine Saksis are assigned to solve the case and they try to keep their forbidden love affair secret at the same time.

According to the autopsy report, Barrie Mayer died of a heart attack while standing in line at London's Heathrow airport. The fact that Barrie was young and in superb health was enough to raise suspicions in her best friend Collette Cahill's mind. But the added fact that Barrie was also a part-time courier for the CIA and held a less-than-professional attitude towards her little "side-line" profession pushed Cahill over the edge from suspicion to...

The sleuthing duo, Mac Smith and Annabel Reed, are married in the cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel and then a violent murder shatters the tranquility of their honeymoon.

Annabel and Mac Smith investigate the murder of Pauline Juris, an aide to an important Washington, D.C., businessman.

When a congressman selected to be the next Secretary of State is found murdered, a shocking web of deceit is discovered by his close friend, Mackenzie Smith.

Journalist Annabel Reed-Smith is at the Library of Congress researching a diary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage. When a scholar studying the same subject is killed in the stacks nearby, Annabel begins to suspect that the library may contain information someone would do anything to keep secret. Best-selling author Margaret Truman uses the great landmarks of the Capitol City as vivid settings for her taut mysteries.

Best-selling author Margaret Truman is beloved for her highly acclaimed Capital Crimes mystery series. In this adventure, former secret agent Max Pauling is offered a chance to do investigative work in Cuba. Although not anticipating danger, one of his sources is killed and he is assaulted. Max realizes that someone doesn't want him to uncover certain secrets of the isla bonita. Narrator Richard Poe brings out the suspense in this international thriller....

Louis Russo, a former mob hit man and government informer, returns to Washington D.C. to help Richard Marienthal finish a book about Russo's own life, but before he can meet with the author, Russo must outsmart the man trying to kill him.

In Truman's newest 'Capital Crimes'' novel, an attempt is made on the President's life on opening night at the Kennedy Center where it's hard to tell if the actors are on the stage or sitting in the best seats. Just when readers think they've figured out what's going on, Truman throws them a curve which proves that, as the old expression so succinctly puts it: 'It's not over until the fat lady sings.'

On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...

When a Washington psychiatrist is found dead in his office, Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend one of his patients who has become a suspect. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink to a highly secret CIA mind control project. A programmed assassin strikes and kills the wildly popular frontrunner in the presidential race. As a result of the assassination, the other government agencies have become aware of the rogue CIA program. They...

"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 by Laura's family to gain insight into the case that the police might have missed. Brixton tracks down...