Margaret Truman

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1980
  • Latest Book:
    February 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Capital Crimes Novel

1 - Murder in the White House (Jun-1980)
2 - Murder on Capitol Hill (1981)
3 - Murder in the Supreme Court (1982)
4 - Murder in the Smithsonian (1983)
5 - Murder on Embassy Row (Jun-1984)
6 - Murder at the FBI (1985)
7 - Murder in Georgetown (1986)
8 - Murder in the CIA (1987)
9 - Murder at the Kennedy Center (Jul-1989)
10 - Murder at the National Cathedral (Sep-1990)
11 - Murder at the Pentagon (Jul-1993)
12 - Murder on the Potomac (Jun-1994)
13 - Murder at the National Gallery (Jul-1996)
14 - Murder in the House (Jul-1997)
15 - Murder at the Watergate (Jul-1998)
16 - Murder at the Library of Congress (Nov-1999)
17 - Murder in Foggy Bottom (Jul-2000)
18 - Murder in Havana (Jul-2001)
19 - Murder at Ford's Theatre (Nov-2002)
20 - Murder at Union Station (Oct-2004)
21 - Murder at The Washington Tribune (Oct-2005)
22 - Murder at the Opera (Nov-2006)
23 - Murder on K Street (Nov-2007)
24 - Murder Inside the Beltway (Nov-2008)
25 - Monument to Murder (Jul-2011)
26 - Murder on the Metro (Jan-2021)
27 - Murder at the CDC (Feb-2022)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Murder in the White House

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 1

    Could the President himself have been the killer? All the evidence pointed to the fact that the murder was committed by someone very highly placed in the White House.......

  • Murder on Capitol Hill

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 2

    IT WAS HIS FAVORITE TOOL. It weighed more than a pound. Most of the weight was in an elaborately carved ivory handle. Its blade was six inches from the butt of its handle to its sharp tip. He'd taken steel wool to it only the day before. He oft...

  • Murder in the Supreme Court

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 3

    THE CHIEF CLERK TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE WAS FOUND MURDERED IN THE COURTROOM... When young Clarence Sutherland was discovered sitting in the Chief Justice's chair with a hole in his head, the question of course was, why? Who would want to kill such...

  • Murder in the Smithsonian

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 4

    Heather McBean had come from Scotland to Washington to find out who murdered her fiance, Dr. Lewis Tunney. It had happened during a glittering black-tie affair at the Smithsonian. Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian, had stumbled onto an internat...

  • Murder on Embassy Row

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 5

    WHO WOULD KILL THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT HIS OWN ANNIVERSARY PARTY? Geoffrey James was British ambassador to Iran before serving the same function in America. That explains his rather extravagant taste for caviar. But what can account for his my...

  • Murder at the FBI

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 6

    Special agent George Pritchard was no one's favorite at the FBI. But when his murdered body is found hanging behind the target at the Bureau's own firing range, with two hundred astonished tourists looking on, a special investigation is ordered. The ...

  • Murder in Georgetown

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 7

    Valerie Frolich, the beautiful, twenty-year-old daughter of New Jersey senator John Frolich, was among the youngest guests at the elegant Georgetown party. Her provocative dancing raised not a few eyebrows - but could someone have found it distastefu...

  • Murder in the CIA

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 8

    Barrie Mayer, a beautiful Washington literary agent, arrives at London's Heathrow airport with plenty of time make her flight to Budapest, where she's planning to meet an author. The airport is crowded, but it's not a scheduling problem that keeps Ba...

  • Murder at the Kennedy Center

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 9

    During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party's hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate'...



  • Murder at the National Cathedral

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 10

    Murder didn't stop Mac Smith and Annabel Reed from falling in love, or from getting married at the glorious church on the hill in Washington, D.C., the National Cathedrals But the brutal murder of a friend drags them from their newlywed bliss into an...

  • Murder at the Pentagon

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 11

    A genius doctor is murdered, and a desert madman gains the means to kill millions. These two explosive events ultimately draw Major Margit Falk, a helicopter pilot and Pentagon lawyer, into a maelstrom of betrayal, deceit, and danger--and straight in...

  • Murder on the Potomac

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 12

    Law professor Mac Smith has unflagging passion for two things in his life: his wife Annabel and the majestic Potomac River. When Mac discovers a weed-shrouded body in the latter, the former gets edgy. Lovely Annabel, owner of a flourishing Georgetown...

  • Murder at the National Gallery

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 13

    When the senior curator at Washington's famed National Gallery finds a missing painting by the Renaissance master Caravaggio, he mounts a world-class exhibition - and plots a brilliant forgery scheme that will stun the art world. But an artful dec...

  • Murder in the House

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 14

    He died beneath the Statue of Freedom, clutching a 9-mm pistol in his hand. But as dawn rose, the politician would die again - in a hail of rumor and character assassination. Now one man suspects the shattering truth: that the congressman's suici...

  • Murder at the Watergate

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 15

    It is home to the powerful, the glamorous, and the politically connected. It has a gorgeous view and a notorious history. Now the Watergate, a vast complex of hotel rooms, apartments, health spas, and fine restaurants, is famous for something else: t...

  • Murder at the Library of Congress

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 16

    In the depths of the U.S. Library of Congress toil thousands of researchers, chasing down obsessions, breakthroughs, and new contributions to human intelligence. But when amateur D.C. sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith enters this stately American institution...

  • Murder in Foggy Bottom

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 17

    Once it was a swamp. Now Foggy Bottom is swimming with real-estate sharks. When a man is found stabbed to death in this trendy D.C. neighborhood, it is major news. But within forty-eight hours the nation is gripped by a fear that leaves this comparat...

  • Murder in Havana

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 18

    Havana may be far from Washington, but DC power brokers are never far from Havana. Neither are danger, deception, and sudden death. That's what draws Max Pauling there. As an ex-CIA, ex-State Department employee, he faces an uneventful early retireme...

  • Murder at Ford's Theatre

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 19

    It was the site of one of the most infamous assassinations in American history. Now the body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for Senator Bruce Lerner, is discovered in the alley behind Ford's Theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched...



  • Murder at Union Station

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 20

    Louis Russo, former mob hit man and government informer, arrives at Union Station in D.C. on the last lap of what will turn out to be his one-way trip from Tel Aviv. Two men meet his train. One is the man who will kill him. The other is Richard Marie...

  • The President's House

    As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhaustingâ€"but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White...

  • Murder at The Washington Tribune

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 21

    From senators to summer interns, from all the president's men to all-powerful women, Margaret Truman captures the fascinating, high-wire drama of Washington, D.C., like no other writer. Now this master of mystery fiction takes us into the capital's c...

  • Murder at the Opera

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 22

    Margaret Truman, who knows where all the bodies are buried inside the Beltway, has written her most thrilling novel of suspense yet. Murder at the Opera features the popular crime-fighting couple Mac Smith and his wife, Annabel Reed-Smith, as they na...

  • Murder on K Street

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 23

    Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner, senior Illinois senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife's brutally bludgeoned body. And like any savvy politician with presidential aspirations, his first move is to phone his attorney. In this case, it's his...

  • Murder Inside the Beltway

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 24

    Rosalie Curzon, a Washington, D.C. call girl, is found bludgeoned to death in her Adams-Morgan apartment. At the murder scene a video camera is discovered nestled high on a bookshelf. Had the victim taped some of her clients during their sexual liais...

  • Monument to Murder

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 25

    Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a 20 year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savann...

  • Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic Murder

    Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work ...

  • Murder on the Metro

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 26

    In Margaret Truman's Murder on the Metro Jon Land's first thrilling addition to the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes series, Robert Brixton uncovers a sinister plot threatening millions of American lives! The nation's first fe...

  • Murder at the CDC

    A Capital Crimes Novel - 27

    Murder and intrigue on the steps of the United States capital building pulls Robert Brixton into his most personal case yet, in Margaret Truman's Murder at the CDC2017: A military transport on a secret run to dispose of its deadly contents vanishes w...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Truman has published 29 books.

Margaret Truman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder at the CDC, was published in February 2022.

The first book by Margaret Truman, Murder in the White House, was published in June 1980.

Yes. Margaret Truman has 1 series.
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