Political, United States, Women Sleuths, Espionage 

A Washington caper of fraud, blood, oil, and international intrigue with the fearless and irreverent Kate Boothe Since sticking to her principles during the last presidential election, Kate Boothe has watched her political consulting business shrink. When she and her partner Jack are approached to do media strategy for the Essex Group, it’s a ticket into the inner circle of politics, and Kate plunges in. On her first tour of duty for the company, a jaunt that sends her to Paris, she rendezvous with a longtime friend, a reporter who just happens to be investigating her new employer until he turns up murdered. Determined to unravel the reason for his death—and to bring down the perpetrator—Kate and her partner Jack find themselves caught up in a scheme involving fraud, blood, arms dealers, and oil in the ultimate power game. - from Amzon