Foreign Service veteran Richard Michaelson is more than familiar with the politics of politics. When an aide to the Secretary of State turns up dead at a conference Michaelson is attending, he gets the feeling she knew one too many--a detail that is somehow connected to him. Soon investigators, W...
Rep Penneworth’s excellent Civil War adventure.Here is a witty mystery replete with insider comments, informed humor, serio-cynical comments all combine for a rollicking good time with an intellectual property lawyer at a Civil War Reenactment in Kansas City.The tone of this novel, the author’s a...
Marjorie said to Michaelson at what was in fact one o’clock the following Sunday morning. “But the last place I would have expected it to end up is Avery Phillips’ condo.” “Knight to d-five,” one of two males sharing the couch with them said to the other. Neither chessboar...
Over the weekend Rafe and I did the hospitality thing for Mama and Uncle D while they rested up from their cross-country jaunt. That meant Josie going to Mass for the second week in a row, because the last thing I needed was some Mama drama. On Monday we got them on a plane headed back to Baton R...
Jerome Casper, Counsel for Hemispheric Affairs in the State Department’s Office of Legal Advisor. He was very good at the centerpiece tasks expected of foreign service officers: observation, analysis, reporting. He enjoyed them. What he really loved, however, and what he had really missed since h...
Frank Seton asked Melissa. She fell into step beside her brother and began walking with him down a broad corridor on the second floor of Samson Hall at the Naval Academy. “‘Improvised’ is a little strong, isn’t it? It took a while to set this up, so...