A Lethal Balance: Murder in the Court

No sitting Supreme Court justice has ever been murdered... until now. Washington, D.C. in 2029 is much like the Washington, D.C. of 2009. A Democratic president has just been sworn in, and the Congress and American public are bitterly divided on several issues. The latest fight is over capital punishment. Half the country wants to keep it, half want to abolish it. Conservatives want the Supreme Court to readdress the issue before the 5-4 pro-death penalty on the Court is altered, and a liberal, openly anti-death penalty president can appoint a successor. One elderly conservative justice has numerous health problems, so time is of the essence. But when a conservative justice is suddenly murdered during the summer recess with two death penalty cases to be heard in October, the balance of the Court is in peril. Investigators are in a race to determine who committed the crime and whether the killing was personal, political, an act of terrorism, or something else. A political murder mystery with twists and turns for the investigators, plus intrigue behind the scenes.