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Murder on Embassy Row: A Capital Crimes Novel, by Margaret Truman
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Ambassador Geoffrey James might be a British citizen, but when he dies on the night of a gala party, it's up to Captain Sal Morizio of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department to investigate. Despite orders to desist, Morizio and his lady love, fellow officer Connie Lake, know too much.
And what they learn on an international search for missing clues tells them a lot about corruption in high places—and the effects of caviar on otherwise rational people. . . .
Murder on Embassy Row: A Capital Crimes Novel, by Margaret Truman- Amazon Sales Rank: #802863 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Released on: 2015-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.00" w x 4.19" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 400 pages
From the Inside Flap Ambassador Geoffrey James might be a British citizen, but when he dies on the night of a gala party, it's up to Captain Sal Morizio of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department to investitgate. Despite orders to desist, Morizio and his lady love, fellow officer Connie Lake, know too much. And what they learn on an international search for missing clues tells them a lot about corruption in high places--and the effects of caviar on otherwise rational people....
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 usher us into the corridors of power and privilege, poverty and pageantry, in the nation's capital. She lives in Manhattan.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Getting Better By Richard R Margaret Truman is getting better with each book. Here she's gone beyond the limiting format (that was getting annoying in her previous books) of having a tough-as-nails but cuddly-as-a-kitten heroine solve the crimes. The plotting in "Embassy Row" is much more carefully crafted, as British Ambassador Geoffrey James dies after his own party under mysterious circumstances. This is the first of Truman's books where you won't have guessed the villain by about 50 pages in. The characters are a bit better, but Truman's efforts at cop-talk and cop-walk still fall woefully short. Hero Sal Morizio makes lots of dumb naive mistakes for a veteran big city detective. He's the least credible of all the characters. Truman also plays some of the same riffs as in her previous books: she spends a lot of time describing D.C. cafes and restaurants, but is woefully uninformed about how government offices actually operate. For example, there is no "British Liaison office at the State Department", and CIA isn't called "the Company" by anyone but callow writers. But the very worst and most annoying mistake in the book is Truman's repeated and insistent assertion that Iranians are Arabs. They aren't, they're Muslim but not Arab.Overall, "Embassy Row" is better than "Supreme Court" or "White House", but there's still lots of room for improvement.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Very disappointing to the mystery lover. By Elsie Wilson What is it about the British that has so soured Truman? I have not read a book by her in which any of the British characters were nice. Here the prime nasties are all British, from the murder victim ~ the Ambassador ~ to the planner and executer of the cover-up and the people who end up giving our protagonist clues. The only Britons of any attraction are incidentals who wander in and out of the book in a page or two. Sadly, this is not my only complaint about the book: I don't like Truman's insistance on some details ~ locations, specific stores, clothing ~ which she uses to establish her credibility. Nor has she invented an even plausible plot ~ the British Ambassador to Iran knew weeks beforehand about the Ayatollah's takeover in '79, including the plan to capture the American embassy, and the only use he made of the information was to plan a smuggling operation? Please. Stick to biography.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great characters, good plot makes fine read By Edgar Allan Poet Murder on Embassy Row is an excellent novel with fully fleshed-out characters and a compelling plot. The main characters are decent, likable people working against a corrupted system that tries several nefarious means to dissuade them from continuing their investigation into the murder of a British official at a UK Embassy on American soil. The touchy nature of diplomatic immunity and an embassy's status as foreign-owned soil in another country brings special problems to the murder investigation. Detective Sal Morizio and partner Constance Lake won't let go once they grasp the fact that something is very wrong with the picture the Brits have painted of the crime, with American political cooperation. There's a conspiracy here to obfuscate the truth, but they can't figure out why. The only reason this review didn't merit 5 stars is due to some factual problems which diminished the novel a bit. Most of these mistakes have been pointed out by other reviewers, including references to "the Company" by people who wouldn't use that term. and other similar mistakes that show a lack of thorough research.
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