Kenneth Ewald has what it takes to win the presidency: the support of his party, a lovely wife, a dynamic campaign. What neither he nor any candidate needs is a corpse. He knows only one man capable of solving a crime, clearing his son, putting his campaign back on track and catching a killer-his best friend Mac Smith. Oddly enough, it was Mac and his dog Rufus who found the body in the first place.

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....

Margaret Truman, who knows where all the bodies are buried inside the Beltway, has written her most thrilling novel of suspense yet. Murder at the Opera features the popular crime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife, Annabel Reed-Smith, as they navigate the glitz, glamour, and grime that is Washington, D.C.
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,...

Margaret Truman looks inside one of D.C.'s great institutions, the Library of Congress, the place where much of the wisdom of the nation is collected, and finds blood on the floor.
Was there a second diary, beyond the one Columbus kept, describing his voyage to the New World? Leading scholars at the Library of Congress think so, and Annabel Smith, with her pre-Columbian interests, has been commissioned by the library's magazine, Civilization,...

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 young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton...

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When a genius doctor is murdered and a desert madman gains the means to kill millions, Major Margit Falk, a helicopter pilot and Pentagon lawyer, is drawn into Project Safekeep—an antimissile scheme under congressional investigation. The alleged murderer has his share of secrets, but Falk smells conspiracy in the air. And although she turns to...

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...

Hockey is a dangerous game, but it's what happens off the ice that can get you killed … Curtis Ritchie is the only news in town when Ottawa takes the young hockey sensation first overall in the annual spring draft. But on the eve of Ritchie's rookie season, the media frenzy over the signing and the controversial trades that secured the young star are eclipsed by news of his murder. As Ottawa Major Crimes Unit investigator Jack Smith reassembles...