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    An American Killing
    An American Killing
    An American Killing
    Audiobook11 hours

    An American Killing

    Written by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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 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 bestselling author of several true crime books.

    When her lover urges Denise to look into an old murder in his 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. callgirl, her bullshit detector goes on red alert: the good congressman didn't have to pay for sex. But when death strikes even closer to home, Denise becomes a woman with a big-time problem. Someone is very serious about getting her to drop the old case. Serious enough to make her the target of the next hit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 11, 2008
    ISBN9781423359456
    An American Killing
    Author

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith is the author of eight novels. She has lived all her life in Connecticut, except for two years when she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon.

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    • 2/5
      I really enjoyed how the plot unfolded through the process of research for a book.  I was pleased with the first 75% of the book, but then it got excessive.  Too much adultery for me and too much killing - it felt over the top and unrelatable.
    • 4/5
      I found this book on sale never having heard of it or the author and I was charmed with word one. The plot kind of holds up with only a few flaws but the characters and the story just grabbed me and moved me along so I hardly noticed. Denise Burke is a true crime writer who is having an affair with a US Senator. He tells her of an intriguing murder so that she'll write a book about it. About the time she gets interested he tells her to stop.