Murder in the Senate
by By Cohen, William S. and Allen, Thomas B.
Category: Fiction , General

The death toll in Washington, D.C., is out of control, and on the eve of a controversial vote in Congress, Senator Julia Bristow is found brutally murdered. Jeffrey Fitzgerald, the Chief of the Capitol Police (one of three law enforcement units that have jurisdiction in D.C.), is the only man looking at the murder and not the politics."Don't think you'll be a chief of police," his predecessor had told him when he took the job. "You're going to be a functionary in Vatican City, where five hundred and thirty-five cardinals all think they're the pope."Fitzgerald gets a fast lesson in politics as he discovers he must not only try to find the killer but protect his investigation from being controlled by three powerful forces: the ambitious Senate Majority Leader, whose political future is riding on the upcoming vote; the FBI, who may well be acting at the President's direction; and the corrupt mayor of Washington, whose private battle against "the Hill" has placed the district's police force at odds with Fitzgerald's. As though fighting over the jurisdictional turf weren't enough to contend with, Fitzgerald also must resist the pressure from the voracious media, who have made this shocking murder their top story, and from Fitzgerald's boss (officially known as the Architect of the Capitol), who has used his position to enlarge his already almost limitless powers.Written with the unique insider's perspective that only a United States senator could give to it, Murder in the Senate races to an unforgettable climax in the Capitol's most hidden places. More than a thrilling mystery, it is a revealing look into the hardfought and sometimes ruthless way the game of politics is played at the highest levels of American government.