As the turbulent Kennedy administration begins, Alexandra Zsofia Bel, a congressional staffer with a suspicious past, investigates the murder of a State Department lawyer despite risks to her own life. Alex has changed her last name to Bell, her hair color to blond, and her life story to middle-class American to get a job in government. She had hoped to keep her personal history a secret in her new life in Washington, but she risks exposure to catch a murderer before J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI catches her first.
Alex finds the corruption in the nation’s capital stinks like the sewage-laden Potomac River. She, along with her little dog Miss Bea, a cynical beagle and Jack Russell mix, follow the scent, and she also has to use new Washington contacts as well as her family’s connections to find the killer and reveal a conspiracy. This novel is the first of a planned series featuring Alex Bell that will be set in the volatile decade of the 1960s.
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Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is President Emerita and Professor Emerita at Chicago Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. Upon her retirement from CTS, she became a fiction writer and has two fiction series to date. She has an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Duke University and a BA from Smith College. She has authored an edited numerous academic works.
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