Product Description: Donald Bain continues the beloved Capital Crimes series with Margaret Truman’s Deadly Medicine, a gripping tale of greed, betrayal―and murder.If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D...read more

When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife murdered, former DA Philip Rotondi helps with the investigation, in a case that draws him into the dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship.

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 "troublesome" politicians for decades. The cold case heats up when he joins forces with former attorneys Mackensie and Annabel Lee Smith to investigate the organization and the murders they committed in the name of patriotism. With what he knows, Brixton can bring down Washington D.C.'s leading social hostess, if not the administration itself. But can he outwit an organization that is hell-bent on keeping its secrets―secrets that go all the way back to the assassinations of Jack and Bobby Kennedy?Margaret Truman brings us into the corridors of Washington power as only she can, where the end too often justifies the means, where good people are destroyed by those for whom the only goal is survival… whatever the cost.

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 liaisons? As the investigation proceeds, so does business inside the Beltway. President Burton Pyle is running for reelection. His opponent, consummate politician Robert Colgate, is expected to easily defeat Pyle, whose administration has been rife with corruption and scandal. Colgate, though, is not without cracks in his slick exterior. Rumors swirl about his failing marriage and various dalliances. Moreover, there’s no love lost between the two candidates: The campaign has morphed into one of the most distasteful and nasty in memory. Then, on a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of 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 the police uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the Curzon case – and a killer whom no one will see coming.

Product Description: 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...read more

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When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator hasa close relationship.

Product Description: 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 quiet retirement and into the thick of a D...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

When the Washington National Opera becomes the scene of the brutal murder of a young soprano, Mac Smith and his wife, gallery owner Annabel Reed Smith, launch their own investigation that leads them into a race against time to stop an assassination plot targeting the president of the United States on opening night at the Kennedy Center. Reprint.

When the Washington National Opera becomes the scene of the brutal murder of a young soprano, Mac Smith and his wife, gallery owner Annabel Reed Smith, launch their own investigation that leads them into a race against time to stop an assassination plot targeting the president of the United States on opening night at the Kennedy Center. Simultaneous.

Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author At the big, aggressive newspaper The Washington Tribune, a young woman has been murdered. Then a second woman is killed, in Franklin Square. Like the first, she was young, attractive, and worked in the media...read more

As Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informant, travels to Washington, D.C., by train, two men are at Union Station awaiting his arrival--the young writer whose forthcoming book is based on Russo's life, and the man who will kill him. Reprint.

When two attractive young women are found murdered in the nation's capital, disillusioned Washington Tribune crime reporter Joe Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the city, but when his long-lost brother Michael, who has spent years in an Illinois mental institution, shows up, Joe beings to suspect that Michael could be the real thing. Simultaneous.

When two attractive young women are found murdered in the nation's capital, disillusioned Washington Tribune crime reporter Joe Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the city, but when his long-lost brother Michael, who has spent years in an Illinois mental institution, shows up, Joe begins to suspect that Michael could be the real thing. 40,000 first printing.

Three plane crashes bring together the efforts of suave investigator Max Pauling, a beautiful bird-watcher, and a shady militia group, in a mystery that takes readers from the State Department to the rogue black markets of Russia. Book available.

As Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informant, travels to Washington, D.C., by train, two men are at Union Station awaiting his arrival--the young writer whose book is based on Russo's life, and the man who will kill him.

Drawn out of retirement by a former CIA colleague, Max Pauling is asked to investigate a powerful American pharmaceutical firm that may be using a German company as a front to avoid the U.S. scientific embargo of Cuba and finds himself caught in the crossfire of a scheme to seize control of some groundbreaking medical research. Reprint.