Calamity at the Continental Club

Name: Calamity at the Continental Club
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Colleen Shogan
ISBN: 9781666169201

Author: Colleen Shogan

Series: Washington Whodunit #3

Narrator: Angie Hickman

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/28/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

The Mayflower Society is about to hold its annual meeting at Washington DC's swanky gathering place for the elite, the Continental Club. That means Kit Marshall's upper-crust future in-laws, Buffy and Winston Hollingsworth, are coming for a visit.

Annoyed that Kit has not set a date to marry Doug, Buffy wants her to commit to a high society wedding at the club. Kit, though chief of staff for a congresswoman, feels uncomfortable with Buffy and Winston's crowd.

Kit receives an unexpected reprieve in the form of murder. En route to her morning jog, she encounters the corpse of the leader of the Mayflower Society, conservative multimedia tycoon Grayson Bancroft. On the security cameras, no one was seen entering or leaving the club, which means the culprit had to be an overnight guest. Little love was lost on Bancroft, but the police have their prime suspect: Doug's father.

Buffy and Winston, formerly disdainful of Kit's sleuthing, urge her to investigate. With her future in-laws' freedom and reputations at stake, Kit sets out once again to solve a murder mystery, this time aided by her fiancé Doug in addition to her friends Meg and Trevor and her dog Clarence.

About Colleen Shogan

Colleen J. Shogan is the deputy director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) at the Library of Congress. She is a former Senate staffer who started reading mysteries at the age of six. A political scientist by training, Colleen has taught American government at George Mason University, Georgetown, and Penn. Stabbing in the Senate is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Raymond on May 28, 2018

Another good cozy mystery in the Washington Whodunit series. Make sure you read the first two books in the series (Stabbing in the Senate & Homicide in the House) so that you get a sense of the main characters. Once again I was not able to figure out the killer until it was revealed.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa Ks Book Reviews on July 22, 2017

I’ve heard it said, things happen in threes. This third book in the Washington Whodunit Mysteries proves that those three things can be good. But if author Colleen J. Shogan keeps writing them like this, three will only be the beginning! I’m not sure anymore if this series falls under “cozy” mystery......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on July 30, 2017

I wasn't quite sure what to expect about this book. The cover just didn't 'get me'. The title and the synopsis was intriguing. I was surprised. The story 'got me'. I totally enjoyed Calamity at the Continental Club it was a well written 'who dun it'. As with most cozy mysteries this story took place......more

Goodreads review by Ally on October 02, 2017

---4.5 Stars--- Murder has found Kit once again! This time the case is striking close to home as the prime suspect is her future father-in-law! With her fiancé, Doug, her friends Meg and Trevor, and her dog Clarence in tow – Kit is out to solve another murder mystery and clear her soon be father-in-l......more

Goodreads review by E. on September 10, 2017

4 stars “Calamity at the Continental Club” by Colleen J. Shogan is Book 3 in the ‘Washington Whodunit’ series that features Capitol Hill staffer Kit Marshall. A stressful interlude with her in-laws-to-be during the annual meeting of the Mayflower Society is complicated by Kit’s penchant for getting i......more