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Homicide in the House
By Colleen J. Shogan
Washington Whodunit, Book 2
Publisher: Camel Press
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Genre: Cozy Mystery/Female
Sleuth
Length: 222 Pages
ISBN: 978-1603813334
ASIN: B01GICU1K2
ASIN: B01GICU1K2
About the book:
Kit Marshall
has bounced back from her first brush with the law, when she was suspected of
murdering her senator boss. Now she is working for a freshman congresswoman,
Maeve Dixon, a young Gulf War veteran representing North Carolina. It’s
February, and Kit is feeling out of sorts. A government shutdown has just been
announced, wreaking havoc on the Hill, and Dan, Dixon’s chief of staff and
Kit’s supervisor, is an inexperienced lightweight flying blind. Then there’s
Kit’s distracted live-in boyfriend, Doug, who doesn’t seem any closer to
popping the question. Kit’s best friend Meg is up to her eyeballs with her new
beau and oversight committee job, and Clarence the beagle mix will certainly
not win Capitol Canine if Meg has to campaign for him all by herself. Bad as
things are now, they are about to get much worse.
Early one
morning Representative Dixon is caught standing over the corpse of Jack
Drysdale, the Speaker of the House’s top staffer, a man she argued with in
front of the press the day before. The murder weapon was the Speaker’s gavel.
This item was entrusted to Dixon at the time, leading the police to believe
they’ve found their killer. To save her job, Kit must clear her boss’s name,
and quickly. Dixon’s career may be over if the police declare her a suspect or
an anonymous blogger known as Hill Rat breaks the story. Solving this murder
will test Kit’s courage and all her fledgling powers of deduction as she roams
a spooky, sparsely populated Capitol Hill looking for clues and sounding out
suspects.
About The Author
Colleen J. Shogan is a senior executive at the Library
of Congress. She is the former deputy director of the Congressional Research
Service and previously served as a staffer in the United States Senate. A
political scientist by training, Colleen has taught American government at
Georgetown University, Penn, and George Mason. Colleen is a native of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her BA from Boston College and her
doctorate from Yale. A member of Sisters in Crime, she lives in Arlington,
Virginia, with her husband Rob Raffety and their rescue mutt, Conan. Her first
book, Stabbing in the Senate
, won the Next Generation Indie Award for Best Mystery in
2016.
Author Links
Webpage – www.colleenshogan.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/washingtonwhodunit
Twitter – www.twitter.com/cshogan276
Now this is series that I would love to read. I love a good mystery.
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