- Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (Jan 30 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345451503
- ISBN-13: 978-0345451507
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2.9 x 17.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #138,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In Bernhardt's somewhat predictable 14th thriller to feature ace Oklahoma trial lawyer Ben Kincaid (after 2004's Hate Crime), Ben goes to Washington, D.C., to defend his home state's senior senator on a murder charge. Sen. Todd K. Glancy, a former law school colleague who later became "a successful and fabulously wealthy oil magnate" (a fact Ben's mother never lets her son forget), has been caught on video in flagrante with a much younger intern. Soon after the video is shown endlessly on television, the young woman is found dead in a tunnel leading from the Capitol to the Senate offices, and Glancy is charged with her ritual murder. Worst of all, Ben begins to distrust his own client, though dropping the case would be a political and financial disaster. The author has obviously had fun with his research, letting Ben and his team wander around the seats of power, making observations that range from the ironic to the openly gung-ho touristy. If Bernhardt occasionally makes Margaret Truman's books look shrewd and sardonic by comparison, his zeal should please his loyal readers.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
The author shakes up this long-running series by taking his lead character, attorney Ben Kincaid, out of his familiar Oklahoma surroundings and sending him to Washington, D.C., where an old law-school chum, now a U.S. senator, is, well, waist deep in a sex scandal. When the scandal turns murderous, Ben realizes he needs a crash course in Washington law--not to mention backroom politics--if he hopes to keep his old friend out of prison. Assuming, of course, that the senator really is as innocent as he claims. Despite its serious subject, this Kincaid novel is funnier than many of its predecessors. The new surroundings are a plus, too, focusing the reader on the unfamiliar setting instead of the rather-too-familiar legal-thriller formula. All in all, series fans will be satisfied. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring...and partisan, Mar 13 2006
By A. Baker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Capitol Murder: A Novel (Hardcover)
The previous books in the Kincaid series were clever for the most part. Not this one. William Bernhardt discovered his thesauraus for this entry in the series and his soap box. Clearly William Bernhardt felt his political views needed to come through - and they do. Repeatedly. Made the book boring.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Capitol Murder: Thinly veiled political diatribe, Sep 16 2007
By BookReader "BR" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Capitol Murder: A Novel of Suspense (Mass Market Paperback)
I've never gotten so far in a book and then just decided to stop reading it. That happened when I realized that: (a) I really didn't care about whether the Senator was convicted or not; (b) I'd found out who the real murderer was 3 CD's before that, and (c) I couldn't stand another political rant about how evil Republicans are and how holy Democrats are. Bernhardt slanders Nixon (easy to do, I know), and Reagan, while showering pity on poor Bill Clinton for his legal troubles, all the while telling everyone how evil the insurance and oil industries are. I could read MoveOn.org if I wanted that.Give me Tony Hillerman any day.
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
So slow, Jan 31 2006
By Tina "Tina" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Capitol Murder: A Novel (Hardcover)
I am a huge Ben Kincaid fan. I was looking forward to this one big time.What a disappointment. The storyline of a Government official who gets accused of killing an intern - because he was having an affair with her.
The book starts off very well. A murder - and a videotape of the government official and the victim in torrid sex positions (think Monica and Bill). SO far so good.
Except that is when the storyline becomes soooooo borring and soooo slow. We get pages and endless pages of dialogue between the official and Ben, then between Ben and the guy's wife and between Ben and just about everybody else who could possibly be involved in the case.
This is the first time I read a Ben Kincaid book and try to figoure out how many pages I have left to read.
This story dragged and dragged. The usual humour wasn't there, in fact, I felt as though Bernhardt went a little over the top with the "eccentricities of Ben" in this book. Sure, Ben is always a little behind in most things, but in this book, Bernhardt wrote Ben almost over the top - he made him out to be clueless AND a bit of a joke. I did not like that at all. Part of the fun of this series is that Ben is eccentric but interesting. He was neither in this book.
Also, the camaraderie I have come to love between the characters was non-existent here.
Oh, about the murderer. I had it figured out by page 58.
Not a great moment in the Kincaid series.
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