A Capital Crimes Novel
Ballantine
November 2007
On Sale: October 30, 2007
400 pages ISBN: 0345478223 EAN: 9780345478221 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Margaret Truman, who knows where all the bodies are buried inside the Beltway, has written her most thrilling novel of suspense yet. Murder at the Opera features the popular crime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife, Annabel Reed- Smith, as they navigate the glitz, glamour, and grime that is Washington, D.C.
It ainโt over till the fat lady sings . . . but the show hasnโt 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. But when the aspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage.
Georgetown law professor Mac Smith thought heโd just be carrying a rapier in Tosca as a favor for his beloved Annabel, but now theyโre both being pressured by the panicked theater board to unmask a killer. Providing accompaniment will be former homicide detective, current P.I., and eternal opera fan Raymond Pawkins.
Soon the Smiths find themselves dangerously improvising among an expanding cast of suspects with all sorts of scores to settle. What they uncover is an increasingly complex case reaching far beyond Washington to a dark world of informers and terror alerts in Iraq, and climaxing on a fateful night at the opera attended by none other than the President himself.
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