Adam Burns, Washington Post columnist and controversial Presidential critic, is dead. With no clear circumstance, gossip, rumor and speculation flood the media—accident, suicide or murder? Conspiracy theories run rampant, accusing none other than the President of the United States of America. Was Adam Burns the target of a government hit squad? Did someone decide to silence his diatribes once and for all?

Days roar by, the pressure mounts—Clues mislead and intuition betrays. Can Detective Fitzgerald clear the President’s name? Is one woman enough to stop a nation out for blood?

Washington Masquerade is the 8th book in Warren Adler's Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series

About the Author: Acclaimed author, playwright, poet, and essayist Warren Adler is best known for The War of the Roses, his masterpiece fictionalization of a macabre divorce that was adapted into the iconic dark comedy that starred Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. Following the success of his The War of the Roses, Adler went on to option and sell film rights to more than a dozen of his novels and short stories to Hollywood and major television networks. Random Hearts, The Sunset Gang, Private Lies, Funny Boys, Madeline’s Miracles, Trans-Siberian Express and his Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series are only a few titles that have forever left Adler’s mark on contemporary American authorship from page to stage to screen.

Adler navigates the turbulent waters of the American political and social scene in the Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series with unsurpassed authenticity; these stories are born from his experiences as a former White House correspondent, and co-owner of Washington Dossier Magazine, chronicling the social history of the nation’s capital from 1975-1991. He was also a D.C. businessman and once campaign strategist to President Richard Nixon. With over 40 years of an insider’s view of the exclusive domain of the nation’s political elite, Adler writes with a unique insight and command rendering him an invaluable voice in the evolving American experience, and a trademark in American literature. American Quartet the first book in the series was a ‘New York Times notable crime book,’ and was lauded as "High class suspense."