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There were a fair number of qualities in this book that were four-star worthy: I liked the main characters, there was good suspense and "creep factor," the pace moved right along, there was a good twist that left me trying to figure out who the villain actually was. One thing held me back from rating it four stars though: I felt like there were too many threads left dangling, too many ambiguities that were never satisfied, and too many secondary characters that weren't fleshed out quite enough for my preferences...so it was the lack of filling out the fringes of the story that prevented me from rating it higher.

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2.0

I was interested to read one of Margaret Truman's books set in DC because I lived there for 6 years. But what I read was only mildly gratifying. Very little text was wasted on environs, but I did get a chuckle here and there. Otherwise, the murder mystery was set up in a way that seemed dated to me, 30 years on: omniscient view, noticing details that the detective or MC did not that pointed to the culprit very early on, similar devices for red herrings, like a too-lavish lifestyle on a set salary for two of the suspects, the detective marveling at the police lingo his assistant uses that we're all familiar with in this litigious and crime-TV age...it just didn't have much spark for me. Won't continue with the series.

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