Ambassador Geoffrey James might be a British citizen, but when he dies on the night of a gala party, it's up to Captain Sal Morizio of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department to investitgate. Despite orders to desist, Morizio and his lady love, fellow officer Connie Lake, know too much. And what they learn on an international search for missing clues tells them a lot about corruption in high places--and the effects of caviar on otherwise rational people....
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I have read Ms Truman's books before and I was very disaapointed with this one. It starts out well but hten fizzles right after the Ambassador is murdered. I think that the author should have done her research first and foremost. I would think that someone such as Margaret Truman would know that IRANIANS ARE NOT ARABS and IRANIANS DO NOT SPEAK ARABIC. On top of this, there was just too much rambling in this book. I was skipping pages because either dialogue was too long and drawn out or she spent far too long setting up the seen with some unbelievable characters such as diplomats who repeatedly kept referring to the manners and customs of Arabs when speaking about Iran- or the vague descriptions of the Capsian region, of which her diplomats were supposed to be knowledgeable. Her characters were unbelievable despite her confusion regarding the ethnicities. The love story was more of a distraction rather than an enhancement to the overall story.
I would not reccomend this book unless there were nothing else to read in the house.
I would not reccomend this book unless there were nothing else to read in the house.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Who killed the person? Truman isthe only one who knows. Her expertise in mystery is first rate!
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Margaret Truman is getting better with each book. Here she's gone beyond the limiting format (that was getting annoying in her previous books) of having a tough-as-nails but cuddly-as-a-kitten heroine solve the crimes. The plotting in "Embassy Row" is much more carefully crafted, as British Ambassador Geoffrey James dies after his own party under mysterious circumstances. This is the first of Truman's books where you won't have guessed the villain by about 50 pages in. The characters are a bit better, but Truman's efforts at cop-talk and cop-walk still fall woefully short. Hero Sal Morizio makes lots of dumb naive mistakes for a veteran big city detective. He's the least credible of all the characters. Truman also plays some of the same riffs as in her previous books: she spends a lot of time describing D.C. cafes and restaurants, but is woefully uninformed about how government offices actually operate. For example, there is no "British Liaison office at the State Department", and CIA isn't called "the Company" by anyone but callow writers. But the very worst and most annoying mistake in the book is Truman's repeated and insistent assertion that Iranians are Arabs. They aren't, they're Muslim but not Arab.
Overall, "Embassy Row" is better than "Supreme Court" or "White House", but there's still lots of room for improvement.
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Corruption in high places is there anything more intriguing?
Once again, Margaret Truman has shared her intimate knowledge of Washington, D. C., governmental politics, and international diplomacy create a credible additional to her spectular... Read more
Published on July 16 2000 by Patricia Lavins
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Very disappointing to the mystery lover.
What is it about the British that has so soured Truman? I have not read a book by her in which any of the British characters were nice. Read more
Published on Jun 18 2000 by Elsie Wilson
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