An American killing
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Women authors -- Fiction; Politicians' spouses -- Fiction; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Description: As such things are measured in Washington, Denise Burke has everything a woman of wit could want: two hip kids, a marriage carefully constructed to allow maximum mutual leeway with a husband smack in the center of Bill Clinton's inner circle, and a high-profile lover, the most eligible bachelor on Capitol Hill. Plus she's a best-selling author of true-crime books.

When her congressman lover urges Denise to look into an old murder in his home district - and then just as urgently begs her to drop the whole thing - her stubborn streak kicks in. And when he dies in flagrante with a D.C. call girl, her bullshit detector goes on red alert: The good congressman didn't have to pay for sex. But it's when death strikes a lot closer to home that Denise becomes a woman with a big-time problem. Someone is serious about getting her to drop the old case.
Notes: "A Marian Wood book."