Murder at the Washington Tribune: A Capital Crimes Novel Book

From senators to summer interns, from all the presidentâ??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 capitalâ??s chaotic fourth estate. At the big, aggressive newspaper The Washington Tribune, a young woman has been murdered. And the hunt for her killer is making sensational and lethal headlines.The victim, fresh out of journalism school, hoped to make a splash at the Tribâ??and then a maintenance man found her in a supply closet, brutally strangled to death. The Tribâ??s journalists are at once horrified and anxious to solve the crime before the cops do, and put this scandal to rest. But the Metropolitan Police Department isnâ??t going to let byline-hungry reporters get in the way of its investigation, and soon enough the journalists ad the cops have established warring task forces. Then a second woman is killed, in Franklin Square. Like the first, she was young, attractive, and worked in the media.For veteran Trib reporter Joe Wilcox, whose career is mired in frustration and disappointment, the case strikes close to home. His daughter is a beautiful rising TV-news star. As his relationship with a female MPD detective grows more intimate, Joe sees a chance to renew himself as a reporter and as a man. Spearheading the Tribâ??s investigation, he baits a trap with a secret from his own past.Suddenly Joe is risking his career, his marriage, and even his daughterâ??s life by playing a dangerous game with a possible serial killer, while a police detective is bending rules for the reporter she likes and trusts but may not know as well as she thinks she does. As Joeâ??s daughter finds herself trapped at the heart of a frantic manhunt, the walls come down between family, friendship, ethics, and ambitionâ??and a killer hides in plain sight.Chilling, riveting, and richly rewarding, Murder at The Washington Tribune is a brilliant tale of real people in a world where law, power, and honesty collideâ??and where the punishment only sometimes fits the crime.Read More