Margaret Truman Books in Order

Margaret Truman looks back on growing up in Missouri and Washington, then suddenly living in the White House. It is a personal memoir about family, politics, fame, and the strange business of becoming public before adulthood is over.

This nonfiction book tours the menagerie of Pennsylvania Avenue, from beloved dogs and horses to stranger presidential companions. Truman mixes historical anecdotes with a daughter's-eye sense of how pets soften public life inside the White House.

Writing as both biographer and daughter, Truman traces Harry Truman from Missouri farm life and World War I to the Senate and the presidency. The book balances intimate family detail with the weight of decisions made in office.

Truman profiles American women whose lives were shaped by grit, public duty, and difficult choices. It is a readable group portrait of women who kept going when convention, danger, or history pushed back.

Secretary of State Lansard Blaine is found strangled inside the White House, and counsel Ron Fairbanks is told to find out why. The deeper he digs, the more the case threatens the presidency and the people closest to it.

Edited by Margaret Truman, this collection gathers Harry Truman's letters to his daughter and family across decades of public life. The result is warm, funny, and revealing, with politics never far from the dinner table.

When Senator Cale Caldwell is murdered at a glittering Capitol Hill reception, attorney Lydia James suspects the crime is tied to an earlier family tragedy. Washington power, money, and old secrets make every answer dangerous.

A killing linked to the Supreme Court shatters one of Washington's most guarded institutions. With almost everyone around the victim nursing a grievance, the case turns into a tense search through privilege, ambition, and legal power.

Historian Lewis Tunney is murdered before hundreds of guests at a Smithsonian gala, and Captain Mac Hanrahan takes the case. As Tunney's fiancee asks questions of her own, an art scandal and more deaths widen the danger.

When British ambassador Geoffrey James dies during his own party, suspicion falls on a missing valet. Two Washington investigators soon find a nastier mix of diplomacy, espionage, and personal corruption behind the polished facade.

A murder inside FBI headquarters opens a case steeped in bureau secrecy and Washington turf wars. Truman uses the Bureau's guarded world to build a mystery where official loyalty and personal ambition are hard to separate.

Margaret Truman's portrait of her mother shows a private Missouri woman who never entirely made peace with public life. Drawing on family letters and memory, the book follows Bess Truman from girlhood through years in the White House.

Valerie Frolich, a senator's daughter and rising reporter, turns up dead in the C&O Canal. Reporter Joe Potamos follows the story into a maze of bribery, kidnapping, and espionage that reaches well beyond Georgetown society.

When literary agent Barrie Mayer dies at Heathrow, officials call it natural causes, but her CIA friend Collette Cahill knows better. The missing briefcase Barrie was carrying leads straight into espionage and Cold War deception.

A young woman is brutally killed during a gala for Senator Kenneth Ewald, and the evidence points toward the candidate's own family. Law professor Mac Smith steps in as politics, religion, and scandal collide under Washington's brightest lights.

Margaret Truman gathers the letters, notes, and private reflections of Harry Truman to show the man behind the famous motto. It is a direct, revealing volume full of plainspoken opinions, hard choices, and flashes of humor.

Mac Smith and Annabel Reed barely finish their wedding before murder drags them into a new case. What begins at Washington National Cathedral soon stretches to England, where secrets and violence shadow their honeymoon.

Major Margit Falk is drawn into a Pentagon investigation after a doctor is murdered and an antimissile project starts to unravel. The case mixes military secrecy, political pressure, and a threat that could turn catastrophic.

Mac Smith discovers a body in the Potomac and cannot let the mystery go. His search pulls him and Annabel toward a wealthy Washington circle and a theatrical group obsessed with reenacting famous murders.

Truman surveys the women who occupied the White House and shows how the role changed from hostess to public force. It is part group biography, part history of power lived just off the president's shoulder.

A Caravaggio exhibition and a risky forgery scheme set the stage for blackmail and murder at the National Gallery. Annabel Reed-Smith and Mac Smith follow the case from Washington into the murky international art world.

A respected congressman's rise toward higher office is wrecked by scandal, then by an apparent suicide that may actually be murder. The case exposes how quickly rumor, sex, and power can destroy a Washington career.

At the Watergate, political ambition, rich donors, and private appetites overlap in all the worst ways. Mac and Annabel are pulled into a case where campaign money and old loyalties make the body count climb.

When a noted scholar is bludgeoned inside the Library of Congress, Annabel Reed-Smith finds herself in the middle of the case. Missing art, a vanished researcher, and a mysterious Columbus diary deepen the intrigue.

A stabbing in Foggy Bottom seems small until passenger planes start falling from the sky. Truman turns a neighborhood murder into a larger story about terrorism, intelligence, and the secrets buried in Washington.

Ex-CIA and ex-State Department man Max Pauling agrees to fly medical supplies into Havana and lands in something far murkier. Murder, embargo politics, and divided loyalties make Cuba every bit as dangerous as Washington.

When Nadia Zarinski is found dead behind Ford's Theatre, two mismatched detectives step into a mess of sex, politics, and performance. Senators, actors, and arts officials all have reasons to want the truth managed.

This nonfiction history explores the White House as both family home and national symbol. Truman mixes architecture, politics, and lively resident stories to show how the house changed, and what it asked of the people inside it.

Former mob hit man Louis Russo is shot as he arrives at Union Station, carrying a story powerful people would prefer buried. The investigation races from trains and back rooms to Congress and the West Wing.

A young journalist is strangled at the Washington Tribune, then a second media worker turns up dead. Veteran reporter Joe Wilcox chases the killer while fearing his own daughter may be next.

An aspiring soprano is stabbed backstage before a Washington opera performance can even begin. Mac and Annabel move through egos, grudges, and larger political shadows to find who turned rehearsal into murder.

After Senator Lyle Simmons finds his wife bludgeoned to death, retired prosecutor Philip Rotondi is pulled back into Washington combat. Lobbyists, spin, and dirty money make the case as much about influence as homicide.

A murdered call girl, a hidden video camera, and a heated presidential race make a volatile mix. As detectives chase the killer, the case opens onto kidnapping, blackmail, and the polished rot of campaign season.

Savannah investigator Robert Brixton takes a cold case involving Louise Watkins, a woman killed after prison and long believed guilty of a crime she should not have owned. The trail leads from local power brokers to dangerous Washington secrets.