Murder at the Library of Congress - (Capital Crimes) by Margaret Truman (Paperback)

About the Book

When amateur D.C. sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith enters the U.S. Library of Congress, she discovers a hornet's nest of intrigue and murder. After a renowned scholar is bludgeoned to death, an ambitious reporter links the case to the heist of a Spanish painting from a Miami museum and a killing in Mexico City. Annabel suspects that buried in the library are secrets some people will do anything to keep silent.

Book Synopsis

In the depths of the U.S. Library of Congress toil thousands of researchers, chasing down obsessions, breakthroughs, and new contributions to human wisdom. But when amateur D.C. sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith enters this stately American institution, she discovers a hornet's nest of intrigue and murder.

After a renowned scholar is bludgeoned to death among the scholarly stacks, an ambitious TV reporter links the case to the heist of a Spanish painting from a Miami museum and a killing in Mexico City. Annabel suspects that buried in the Library are secrets some people will do anything to keep silent-the secret of a rich man's ambition, a researcher's disappearance, and a mysterious diary of Christopher Columbus's journey written five hundred years ago. . . .

Review Quotes

"A first-rate mystery writer."
-Los Angles Time Book Review

"TRUMAN CAN WRITE SUSPENSE WITH THE BEST OF THEM."
-LARRY KING

About the Author

Margaret Truman has won faithful readers with her works of biography and fiction, particularly her ongoing series of Capital Crimes mysteries. Her novels let us into the corridors of power and privilege, poverty and pageantry in the nation's capital. She lives in Manhattan.