@article{324945,
      recid = {324945},
      author = {Truman, Margaret,},
      title = {Murder at the opera : a capital crimes novel /},
      publisher = {Ballantine Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xiii, 381 p. ;},
      year = {2007},
      note = {With an excerpt from Murder on K Street.},
      abstract = {Political opera has been alive and well in Washington D.C.  since the city became the nation's capital, and the  Washington National Opera company, housed at the Kennedy  Center, is no stranger to politics itself. Murder at the  Opera re-introduces a popular couple who have appeared in  some of the earlier Capital Crimes novels: law professor  Mac Smith and his wife, Georgetown gallery owner Annabel  Reed-Smith, who has a professional relationship with some  of the Washington National Opera's most renowned players -  its trustees. The book opens with a bloody discovery: the  corpse of a young soprano who has been skewered with a prop  from the WNO's soon-to-premiere production of Puccini's  Tosca. As the media swarm, the company sets up its own task  force, and Annabel asks Mac to be involved. Life imitates  opera, and suddenly all the performers seem to have  something to hide: passions for one another, histories  better left uncovered, and even connections to foreign  terrorists. The murder investigation is in a race against  time mere weeks before opening night, a black-tie gala at  which everyone - including the President himself - will be  in the seats.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/324945},
}