Washington Deceased
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home. Unlike Gardner, Martinelli's rap sheet smacks more of crime in the streets than crime in the suites...which is why it makes no sense that when Martinelli is killed in a locked room in the honor cottage, it is Gardner who is implicated. Is this a case of prison misdirection or are Washington politics at play? Gardner's daughter, Wendy can't believe her father is responsible and enlists Richard Michaelson to uncover the real criminal. It doesn't take Michaelson long to figure out that the worst criminals aren't in the honor cottage...
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Wendy Gardner, 19-year-old daughter of a senator serving time at a Maryland minimum security prison, appealingly mixes courage and naivete in this locked-room, politically knowing mystery from the author of Badger Game. Sensing his pending parole may be blocked, Wendy's father asks her to call in cagey State Department old hand, Richard Michaelson. Then an inmate is killed under the eye of surveillance cameras, leaving the senator prime suspect. Wendy and Michaelson join forces, her foolhardy straightforward instincts balancing his supremely political indirection. Michaelson follows a paper trail through various federal agencies, while a friend, with hilarious believability, engineers an invitation to a key Washington dinner party; meanwhile , Wendy, reading a local gossip paper, comes to her own conclusions and, sacrificing mightily, beards the bad guy in his den. Michaelson, whose laboriously proven resolution seems hole-free, is a bit of a pedant, and Wendy an occasional airhead, but the capricious capital ambiance is captured perfectly. Bowen deserves watching.
