Collateral Damage: A Michaelson and Marjorie Mystery

By Michael Bowen

A dead body in a locked room in a affluent Virginia country house. Nine people present in the house. No confessions and no witnesses.

And now a very important document has gone missing—a document that might relate to a CIA scandal in the recent past or to a presidential election in the near future. No one will know exactly what it means until it's found. But would someone be willing to kill for it?

The key to this complicated puzzle lies with two sisters who don't quite fit into Washington's high-stakes political arena. Retired Foreign Service agent Richard Michaelson and his friend Marjorie Randolph find themselves at the middle of this whirlwind of political and personal intrigue and must do more than sort clues. Just what secrets is someone trying to bury?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Release date: Feb 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781615954414

Michael Bowen

Michael Bowen, a trial lawyer practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the author of numerous mysteries and non-fiction works. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1976. While at Harvard, he served on the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. Before going to Harvard, Bowen graduated summa cum laude from Rockhurst College, a small Jesuit college in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a bachelor’s degree in History. Bowen lives with his wife, Sara Armbruster Bowen (also a Harvard Law School graduate), and their three younger children in Fox Point, a suburb of Milwaukee.