Margaret Truman's Murder at the CDC
A Capital Crimes Novel
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4.4 • 19 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A mass shooting on Capitol steps. A poisoning at the CDC. Robert Brixton must uncover the deadly connection in Margaret Truman's latest thriller, Murder at the CDC.
2017: A secret military transport carrying deadly cargo disappears without a trace.
The present: A shooting on the Capitol steps nearly claims the life of Robert Brixton's grandson. Determined to uncover the motive, Brixton investigates, only to find his best friend's daughter, who works at the CDC, has also been poisoned.
The link between these crimes lies in the long-lost military transport, now in the hands of radical separatist leader Deacon Frank Wilhyte. His goal: to bring on a second Civil War.
Brixton teams up with former Baltimore homicide detective Kelly Lofton, who has her own reasons to find the truth. But pursuing it puts them in the crosshairs of Wilhyte's legions and his Washington enablers.
Margaret Truman's Murder at the CDC is a gripping political thriller filled with assassination, drone warfare, terrorist attacks, and a mystery that spans from Washington DC to the Middle East.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Land's strong second contribution to the Truman franchise (after 2021's Murder on the Metro), a shooting on the Capitol steps leaves 18 dead and many others critically wounded. Capitol police officer Kelly Loftus, lawyer Mackensie Smith, and Mackensie's best friend, PI Robert Brixton, join the effort to investigate the horrific crime. Kelly finds what she believes may be a lead, one too tenuous to turn over to the authorities without further investigation. Meanwhile, Robert's 14-year-old grandson is among the youngsters who survived the shooting. Mackensie, too, is directly touched by tragedy when his beautiful and whip-smart daughter, Alexandra, who works for the Washington office of the Centers for Disease Control, is hospitalized, and her colleague dies from an unknown poison. In the end, Kelly, Mackensie, and Robert get involved in a dangerous mission to stop a cataclysmic event that could reshape democracy in America. The complicated, traumatic backstories Land constructs for each of his leads never slow the plot, which addresses a host of hot topics such as bullying and school shootings, as it races to a cinematic conclusion. Political thriller fans will be pleased.
