Fatal Legislation, Ellen Butler
Fatal Legislation, Ellen Butler
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Fatal Legislation

Author: Ellen Butler

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/18/2020


Synopsis

Lawmaking can be a murderous affair.

If any day calls for a soothing glass of wine, it's today. One moment, Capitol Hill lobbyist Karina Cardinal is having a heated discussion with Senator Harper, who just torpedoed her latest health care legislation initiative. The next, after a cryptic remark, the senator is dead at her feet. Hours later, she's still so rattled she wakes to a freezing apartment because she forgot to close her back door. Or did she?

When her boyfriend, FBI cybercrimes expert Mike Finnegan, is suddenly reassigned to work a new case, he's got bad news and worse news. The bad: the senator's death was no heart attack—it was assassination by a hacker disabling his pacemaker. Worse: Karina's a "person of interest."

Certain that status could change to "suspect" at any moment, Karina begins her own back-channel investigation into who could have wanted the senator dead. Of course, in Washington, that means playing politics and following the money trail. A trail that leads to more murders . . . and possibly leaving the door open for a killer to change her status to "dead."

About Ellen Butler

Ellen Butler is the internationally bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series. Her experiences working on Capitol Hill and at a medical association in Washington DC inspired the mystery-action series. Multiple books in the series have hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists in the US and abroad. Book critics call the Karina Cardinal mysteries "intelligent escapism" and "unputdownable adventures that will take readers on an electrifying yet light-hearted and humorous journey." Butler is also the author of the award-winning historical suspense novel The Brass Compass. The Brass Compass has won multiple awards for historical fiction, including a 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award, a 2018 IndieReader Discovery Award, and a 2019 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal. Ellen is also the author of the award-winning Love, California Style romance series. "Sexy, sassy, with a side of funny," the Love, California Style series is for those who enjoy Hallmark Hall of Fame-type romances. She won The Romance Reviews Readers' Choice Award in 2015 for her novel Planning for Love.


Reviews

Goodreads review by E.A. on December 26, 2018

Fatal Legislation: A Novel: Karina Cardinal Mystery Book 2 by Ellen Butler was a fast pace, intriguing mystery, that had me hooked from start to finish. Not my first read by this author or in this series. We are again tossed into an unusual mystery were our MC is once again in the wrong place at the......more

Goodreads review by Jenni on December 18, 2018

Fatal Legislation a Karina Cardinal Mystery is the second and brilliant book in the series by Ellen Butler. I enjoyed the first book but loved this one. Ellen has come up with a story that is full of danger and mystery, drama and suspense, intrigue and politics and has done a wonderful job of weavin......more

Goodreads review by Jill Elizabeth on November 19, 2018

This is the second book in the Karina Cardinal series, and it was just as much of a rollicking ride as the first… KC, as she’s known to her friends, is a delightful protagonist – strong, sassy, and clever, she never fails to find trouble and then doggedly pursue it (even when it’s decidedly unwise f......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on December 19, 2018

A great read about law. Karina Cardinal survived the events of the last novel and has a new job lobbying for health bills. When a prominent senator drops down dead in front of her, Karina's world is turned upside down once again. With Mike on her heels from the FBI, she struggles to know who to trus......more

Goodreads review by Francis on December 21, 2018

Fatal Legislation is the second book in Ellen Butler’s Karina Cardinal Mystery series. Yet again, Karina ends up being swept up in a mystery that her inquisitive mind won’t let her leave alone. I like the variety in the Karina Cardinal Mysteries. The first book, Isabella’s Painting, focused on art th......more