An American killing / a novel by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone, 1944-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American--Fiction.

Women authors, American.

Politicians' spouses--United States--Fiction.

Politicians' spouses.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Jacqz, Jane (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

360 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt, 1998.

Summary:

As such things are measured in Washington, Denise Burke has everything a woman of wit could want: two hip kids able to look after themselves; a marriage carefully constructed to allow maximum mutual leeway with a husband smack in the center of Clinton's inner circle; and a high-profile lover, the most eligible bachelor on Capitol Hill. Plus, she's a best-selling author of true-crime books. Not bad for a kid from the wrong side of the tracks whose mother never saw the wrong side of a bottle of booze.

When her lover urges Denise to look into an old murder in his home district--and then just as urgently begs her to drop the whole thing--her stubborn streak kicks in. And when he dies in flagrante with a D.C. call girl, her bullshit detector goes on red alert: the good congressman didn't have to pay for sex. But it's when death strikes even closer to home that Denise becomes a woman with a big-time problem. Someone is serious about getting her to drop the old case. Serious enough to make her Numero Uno for the next hit.

Notes:

"A Marian Wood book."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has signature of Jane Jacqz on front flyleaf.

ISBN:

0805057021

OCLC:

38014732