Capital crimes series
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Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When 200 people from Washington gather at a cocktail reception for Senate Majority Leader Cale Caldwell, they are horrified to find the guest of honor with an icepick through his chest. Lawyer Lydia James is called upon by the widow to act as special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating Caldwell's murder. When her prime suspect turns out to be Caldwell's son, Mark, whose past involves an unsolved murder and participation in a religious...
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Murder in the Supreme Court , Capital crimes series volume 3
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Murder in the Smithsonian , Capital crimes series volume 4
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Murder on Embassy Row , Capital crimes series volume 5
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Author
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Arbor House
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
Description
Special agent George Pritchard was nobody's favorite at the FBI. But when his murdered body is found, agents Ross Lizenby and Christine Saksis look for answers--only to find that the bureau wants questions kept to a suspicious minimum ...
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Murder in Georgetown , Capital crimes series volume 7
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Murder in the CIA , Capital crimes series volume 8
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Author
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
"During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party's hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate's son. The dynamic campaign of Senator Kenneth Ewald has collided with a tragedy that can send his son to jail--and wreck his own career. George Washington University law professor Mac Smith comes out...
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Capital crimes series volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1990.
Language
English
Description
The brutal murder of a friend drags Mac Smith and Annabel Reed from their newlywed bliss into an unholy web of intrigue and danger. When a second murder is commited in England, which the honeymooners had just visited, the Smiths go back across the seas, and straight into the center of an ungodly plot of secret agents, a playboy priest, a frustrated lover, a choleric cleric ... and a murder so perfect it's a sin.--Publisher's description.
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Murder at the Pentagon , Capital crimes series volume 11
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Author
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
PIs Mac and Annabel Smith investigate the death of Pauline Juris, a Washington secretary, whose body was found floating off Roosevelt Island. The suspects include her boss, his wife, their daughter and their son, each of whom had a reason to kill her. By the author of Murder at the Pentagon.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
A curator of the National Gallery in Washington finds a lost Caravaggio and prepares an exhibition. First, though, he makes a copy of the painting, keeping the original for himself. A tale of blackmail and murder featuring sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
In Washington, a congressman is accused of sexual harassment by a staffer. When the staffer is killed, police turn their attention to the congressman, only to see him killed and his daughter kidnaped. Sleuthing law professor Mac Smith uncovers an influence-peddling Russian connection.
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Mac Smith flies to Mexico on a fact-finding tour as the White House seeks to formulate a policy towards Mexican revolutionaries. Prompting the trip is the spread of violence, including murder, all the way to Washington.
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Murder at the Library of Congress , Capital crimes series volume 16
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18) Murder in Havana
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Retired CIA operative Max Pauling is hired by a former colleague to fly medical supplies to Havana. The covert reason for the mission is to discover the secret behind Cuba's top-notch cancer research.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young theatre volunteer named Nadia Zarinski is found in a dark alley, two cops, Rick Klayman and Moses "Mo" Johnson, discover that Nadia was the intern for, and the rumored lover of, an influential right-wing Senator.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2005b
Language
English
Description
"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 Trib's investigation, he baits a trap for the killer with a secret from his own past." "Suddenly Joe is risking his career, his...
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English
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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.
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English
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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 has a close relationship.
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert 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 Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
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Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Brixton takes on a twenty-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 organizations that been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades.
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a Washington psychiatrist is found dead in his office, Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend one of his patients who has become a suspect. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink to a highly secret CIA mind control project. A programmed assassin strikes and kills the wildly popular frontrunner in the presidential race. As a result of the assassination, the other government agencies have become aware of the rogue CIA program. They...
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Undiplomatic murder , Capital crimes series volume 27
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Internship in murder , Capital crimes series volume 28
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Author
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm, carry on the work of her father. His experiments in the...
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Allied in danger , Capital crimes series volume 30
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Author
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The nation's first female vice president is dead. The public, including international investigator Robert Brixton, believes it was natural causes, complications related to a long-hidden heart condition. Kendra Rendine, head of Vice President Stephanie Davenport's Secret Service security detail, covertly approaches Brixton to look deeper into Davenport's death. Brixton discovers that a rumored affair between Vice President Davenport and President...
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Murder at the CDC: a capital crimes novel , Capital crimes series volume 32
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