Homicide in the House - a Washington Whodunit

Homicide in the House - a Washington Whodunit by Colleen J. Shogan. Mass Market Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781335506702.

A Capitol Crime DC staffer Kit Marshall has a brand-new job working for freshman congresswoman Maeve Dixon. But a government shutdown has just been announced, wreaking havoc on the Hill. Then Kit’s boss is caught standing over the corpse of Jack Drysdale, a staffer she’d publicly argued with the day before. The murder weapon? The Speaker’s gavel, which Dixon was taking care of at the time of the murder. To save her job, Kit must clear her boss’s name—and quickly. Dixon’s career may be over if the police declare her a suspect or if an anonymous blogger known as Hill Rat breaks the story. Solving this murder will test Kit’s courage and all her fledgling powers of deduction as she roams a spooky, sparsely populated Capitol Hill looking for clues and sounding out suspects.