"Excellent . . . The action builds to a stunning final twist."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In House Secrets, DeMarco is sent by Speaker of the House John Mahoney
to look into the accidental death of a mediocre newspaper reporter who,
in the days before his death, claimed that he had a lead on the biggest
political scandal since Watergate. It turns out that the reporter was on
the trail of Senator Paul Morelli, the handsome and gifted rising star
from New York, considered a shoo-in for his party's presidential
nomination. Morelli's past has already been scrutinized and he looks
clean, but then why is DeMarco being followed by a pair of thugs who
freelance for the CIA?