William Bernhardts bestselling novels featuring Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid capture the bare-knuckles reality of high-stakes criminal defense as lofty ideals of justice clash with power corruption and wealth In Capitol Murder Bernhardts hard-charging hero takes on his most shocking headline-making case yetKincaids legal success has earned him a dubious reward a journey through the looking glass into the Beltway Here in the heart of the nations capital a powerful US senator has been caught first in a sordid sex scandal then in a case of murderSenate aide Veronica Cooper was found in a secret Senate office beneath the Capitol building on Senator Todd Glancys favorite couch blood pouring from the knife wound in her throat The young womans death comes on the heels of the release of a sordid videotape depicting her and Senator Glancy in compromising positions With the senators reputation in tatters the evidence against himas a sexual predator and possibly a killermounts By the time a nationally televised murder trial begins Kincaid and his team know theyre facing the challenge of a lifetime According to public opinion and even in Kincaids most private thoughts Glancy is one more politician who cannot admit his own culpabilityBut while a dramatic trial unfolds in the courtroomloaded with pitfalls traps and an astounding betrayalanother trial is taking place on the mean streets of DC as Kincaids investigator pursues a young woman who was a friend of Veronica Coopers plunging Kincaid into a bizarre world of Goths sadomasochists and a community of self-proclaimed vampires Somewhere in this violent underworld lies the secret behind Veronica Coopers demise and the crux of Senator Glancys innocence or guiltIn a case that pits Kincaid and his freewheeling partner Christina McCall against the brutal machinery of Washington politics the answers they seek are hidden in a murderous maze of lies and hidden motives And in William Bernhardts best novel yet getting to the truth is an unparalleled experience in pure satisfying suspense.
