An American Killing - Tapa blanda

A bestselling true-crime author, wife to a Washington insider, Denise Burke knows the facts behind the rumors, the stories behind the scandals. Now Owen Hall, a charismatic congressman, urges her to investigate a triple murder case that may have led to a wrongful conviction. But as she begins to penetrate the fateful events surrounding the years-old homicide, Hall suddenly begs her to stop. Yet Burke is in too deep. The stakes reach a deadly level when Hall dies in flagrante with a D.C. call girl--and Burke uncovers a chilling connection. Desperately pursuing a story of secrets, sex, and blood--not for profit, not for fame, but for her very survival--Burke exposes the terrifying truth about the most monstrous crime of all.

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith published her first novel, The Book of Phoebe, in 1985. Newsweek called it "genuinely funny, smart, and endearing," and William Wharton hailed her as "a writer of tremendous talent." Three more novels followed: Lament for a Silver-Eyed Woman, which drew on the author's own experiences in the Peace Corps and which New York Newsday acclaimed as "good fiction on a serious subject written with a wonderfully funny voice"; The Port of Missing Men, which Fannie Flagg in The New York Times Book Review welcomed as "delightfully unexpected and offbeat . . . you never know what twists or turns it will take"; and Masters of Illusion, of which Publishers Weekly said, "This daringly imagined novel adds a new dimension to an already impressive body of work." Every one of these accolades applies with equal force to Mary-Ann Tirone Smith's fifth novel, An American Killing.