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Book Reviews of Murder at the Opera (Capital Crimes, Bk 22)

Murder at the Opera (Capital Crimes, Bk 22)
Murder at the Opera - Capital Crimes, Bk 22
Author: Margaret Truman
ISBN-13: 9780345478221
ISBN-10: 0345478223
Publication Date: 10/30/2007
Pages: 400
Edition: Reprint
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 30 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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reviewed Murder at the Opera (Capital Crimes, Bk 22) on + 317 more book reviews
An exciting mystery that involves Mac & Annabell in more ways than one. Suspense to the end.
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Margaret Truman is truly a mystery-reader's answer to a well-documented thriller. We will miss her.
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It ain't over till the fat lady sings... but the show hasn't even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano in question, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, was scarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when the aspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage.

Georgetown law professor Mac Smith thought he'd just be carrying a rapier in Tosca as a favor for his beloved Annabel, but now they're both being pressured by the panicked theater board to unmask a killer. Providing accompaniment will be former homicide detective, current P.I., and eternal opera fan Raymond Pawkins.

Soon the Smiths find themselves dangerously improvising among an expanding cast of suspects with all sorts of scores to settle. What they uncover is an increasingly complex case reaching far beyond Washington to a dark world of informers and terror alerts in Iraq, and climaxing on a fateful night at the opera attended by none other than the President himself.