Murder at The Washington Tribune: A Capital Crimes Novel

From senators to summer interns, from all the presidents 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 capitals 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 Triband then a maintenance man found her in a supply closet, brutally strangled to death. The Tribs 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 isnt 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.