When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship.

A simple mix up throws Michael Tanner into the crosshairs of sinister government secrets and ruthless political ambitions. An innocent man, Tanner suddenly finds himself on the run, terrified for the safety of his family, in desperate need of a plan, and able to trust no one.

"A young country lawyer is driven by poverty to accept an assemblyman's salary from the hands of a "boss," and when his conscience forces him to vote against a bad bill he is thrown out of office. He becomes a reform county prosecutor but fails in re-election and accepts a position as lawyer for the power company which he had been actively fighting. He makes a rich, loveless marriage, becomes a U.S. senator, and in the end, looking back upon the seeting...

HEnry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly--a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. his new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart, and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sundya make a formidable team of sleuths-- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occuring among their friends...

When the deaths of several high-level politicians are linked to a single professional killer, new president Will Lee, with the help of his CIA director wife, follows leads from a quiet D.C. suburb to an island hideaway in Maine.

Democracy: An American Novel (1880) is a novel by Henry Adams. Published anonymously, Democracy: An American Novel draws on Adams' experience as a political journalist in Washington, DC who worked to expose corruption in American government. Although fictional, the novel is viewed as a commentary on the presidential administrations of the 1870s and political atmospheres surrounding each. "For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot...

Former U.S. Marine and freshman congressman Michael O'Rourke is the only person who has a clue as to what is going on when three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed as an initial strike in what promises to be an all-out attack on the American government.

Attorney Barbara Holloway defends controversial author and scholar David Etheridge, who is accused of murdering a state senator and a young coed who was the subject of a cold case investigation some twenty years ago at the University of Oregon.

In 1983, the F.B.I. tries to find out which United States senator is involved in a conspiracy to defeat a gun-control bill, a plot that has alrady taken the lives of four people.

"Victoria Madaris is next on her great-grandmother's matchmaking list--which suits her just fine. She's laser-focused on her career and doesn't have time to concentrate on her love life, too. Knowing that Mama Laverne is vetting unsuitable candidates--like rising US senator Roman Malone--makes things easy. But Roman unexpectedly ticks all of Victoria's boxes. The longtime family friend is outrageously sexy, and every time they meet, their chemistry...