MURDER INSIDE THE BELTWAY(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　In an esteemed writing career spanning nearly three decades,
Margaret Truman penned twenty-four thrilling Capital Crimes novels,
which The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called a “dazzling series.”
Now, in her crowning achievement, Murder Inside the Beltway, Truman
brilliantly shows that politics can be not only dirty but downright
deadly. Rosalie Curzon, a Washington, D.C., call girl, is found
bludgeoned to death in her Adams-Morgan apartment. Investigating
the grisly homicide are Walt Hatcher, a tough, sour, intolerant
twenty-three-year veteran of the D.C. police department; Detective
Mary Hall, who, unhappy with the way women are treated on the
force, is conflicted about her career; and rookie cop Matthew
Jackson, an introspective young man and the product of a mixed-race
marriage, whom Hatcher looks down on. The murder scene is in a
disturbing state of disarray, suggesting that Rosalie had fought to
the bitter end. Then Hall discovers a video camera nestled high on
a bookshelf. Had the victim taped some of her clients during their
sexual liaisons? As the investigation proceeds, so does business
inside the Beltway. President Burton Pyle is running for
reelection. His opponent, consummate politician Robert Colgate, is
expected to easily defeat Pyle, whose administration has been rife
with corruption and scandal. Colgate, though, is not without cracks
in his slick exterior. Rumors swirl about his failing marriage and
various dalliances. Moreover, there’s no love lost between the two
candidates: The campaign has morphed into one of the most
distasteful and nasty in memory. Then, on a bright Saturday
afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of 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 Curzon
case-and a killer whom no one will see coming. “From the Hardcover
edition.”

　　From “New York Times”-bestselling author Truman comes another
political page-turner revealing the criminal side of the nation’s
capital.