Originally $18.95📖 In her latest Capital Crimes mystery, Margaret Truman turns to that glorious church on a hill in Washington, D.C.: the National Cathedral. A towering edifice of stone and glass that looks out over all of Washington, it is not immune to the passions and power plays that drive the city below. Mac Smith and Annabel Reed, the attractive sleuthing duo of Murder at the Kennedy Center, return for adventures connubial and criminal. They are married in the cathedral's lovely Bethlehem Chapel, but soon thereafter a violent murder shatters the tranquility of the church community and interrupts Mac and Annabel's newlywed bliss. Enjoying and adjusting to partnership in marriage, devoted to each other and to their work—she to her art gallery, he to his law-school teaching-and trying to avoid other entanglements, they find themselves drawn into harsh and unholy realities. A peculiarly parallel crime in a village church in the Cotswold region of England entangles them further in a plot replete with frustrated passions, secret-service agents, a playboy priest, a jealous hus-band, a choleric cleric, terrorist elements, and a not-too-charitable, not-too-peaceful worldwide peace organization. In this, her tenth novel, Margaret Truman swings open the doors of the splendid cathedral and ushers us into its inner chapels, ceremonies, devotions, and the enmities that are part of any institution, even the nation's house of worship. Murder at the National Cathedral is the latest landmark in Margaret Truman's entertaining storytelling career.

ISBN: 9780394576039