Reviews

Murder on Embassy Row by Margaret Truman

daybreak1012's review against another edition

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. The action was fast-paced, but not so much so that it became difficult to keep up. The characters were likable, the story was well-layered, and I was left guessing until the truth was revealed. An easy but fun read.

brianlokker's review against another edition

5.0

This is one of the best books I've read in the Capital Crimes series. It's an intriguing story of murder, corruption, and conspiracy. I always enjoy the Washington D.C. details in these books, although many references are now dated, and this story adds Copenhagen and London to the mix. The main characters, Captain Sal Morizio and Officer Connie Lake of the Washington MPD, are appealing, and Truman does a good job of weaving the story of their personal romantic relationship into the main story of the murder investigation that they are working on. The secondary characters are generally well drawn. The story has some good twists and turns and on the whole is quite satisfying.

nicolepeck's review against another edition

3.0

I've read one or two previous books by this author/in this series before (I think it was the Smithsonian one; I was a teenager, I can't remember! ha ha!!) and remembered enjoying it. This one was just okay for me. I liked that the action (what there was of it; it moved pretty slowly, IMO) traveled to London and Copenhagen; I enjoyed the descriptions of the settings in those two places. I also enjoyed the descriptions of DC. It appears that each book in the series deals with a new set of characters; it's really just the setting of the Nation's Capital that stays the same. In this book, the characters trying to solve the murders are two police officers, involved in a romantic relationship outside of work. There's enough background given of the history of their relationship and bits of romance thrown in so I felt I got to know them well. The book just lacked a lot of action for me for a police-driven murder mystery. It would start to and then never build up enough, it would just slow down again almost immediately. And then the ending was just abrupt with an unsatisfactory (for me) ending that's left slightly hanging, almost like the author just wanted to finish with a little epilogue tacked on, with no resolution of what happened to a few of the bad guys that the author made sure to point out leading up to the end were bad guys. With the ending, I understand why she didn't have any sort of penance for those behind the murders, but the rest of the people involved we get no information on. Still sitting here scratching my head over the ending of this one.

Content: Clean, no strong language

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