by Margaret Truman
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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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Murder on Embassy Row, 2007-01-06
I love the venue of M. Truman's mysteries. She a first rate writer. The many twists held my interest until it ended.
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Jurisdiction, 2006-05-15
Geoffrey James is the British Ambassador. His earlier posting had been Iran. Geoffrey James dies. His personal valet, Nuri Hafez, disappears. Salvatore Morizio, MPD, and Connie Lake work together.
Morizio finds that his morgue is invaded by the British. The ambassador was poisoned by ricin it is determined, one of the world's most toxic substances. Captain Morizio is ordered to appear at a press conference. In the announcement of the death, America is dubbed the host country. Next it develops that Nuri Hafez is designated the murderer and a warrant is issued for his arrest.
Paul Pringle, Morizio's embassy contact, is supposed to have been sent back to England. He gets word to Sal to avoid the Geoffrey James murder case, that there are more important things in life. Sal believes the case has not been solved and even though he has been warned off of the case he can't leave it alone. Pringle dies and a secretary at the embassy tells Connie Lake that Pringle had cared about people, a decent man. Nigel Barnsworth, second in command at the embassy, may be in possession of some of the answers.
Morizio had taught Lake that sometimes orders have to be disobeyed to maintain the soul. He is reading THE THIRTIES by Edmund Wilson. Lake and Morizio learn that their apartments have been bugged. Ideas as to the identity of the parties involved include their department, the State Department, and the CIA.
It seems the ricin could have been embedded in synthethetic caviar. Morizio learns that Pringle is linked to the CIA. When Morizio and Lake are suspended they no longer have a base. In England and Denmark connections are made by them to Iranian caviar and cocaine smuggling schemes serving to form the basis of the murders. At one point Lake goes missing in Christiana, an enclave inside of Copenhagen designated a free area, not subject to law enforcement activity, sort of along the lines of an embassy or an Indian tribal region. In the end, Morizio uses Connie's countercultural Danish aunt to help him in the search.
This is well written and exciting.
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 Really not worth the time, 2004-04-19
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.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 The mystery queen is in top form. Truman can write!, 2001-11-30
Who killed the person? Truman isthe only one who knows. Her expertise in mystery is first rate!
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 Getting Better, 2000-09-28
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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