Censure and Repeal: A Washington Statehouse Mystery

Censure and Repeal by Don Stuart

The charismatic CEO of a high-tech multinational corporation dies when his self-driving car plunges off a cliff into Puget Sound. The company’s own technical experts find that the car’s computer was turned off at the time of the accident. So the police rule his death a suicide.

But lawyer and professional lobbyist Sandy Dalton doesn’t believe it.

Then a whistleblower who triggered a political crisis that had threatened the CEO’s company shows up in Sandy’s office in need of an attorney. In the ensuing legal battle, Sandy and his law partner, Sherry Sebold, use the legal discovery process to pierce the wall of corporate secrecy. And Sandy initiates a back-channel strategy at the State Capitol to flush out the killer.

What the discover will place them both in danger as it implicates top executives inside the company, embarrasses powerful elected political leaders at the highest levels of government and threatens committed activists in the current campaign for Washington State Governor.

The reader observes this tale of technological and political intrigue from the point of view of deeply likable Sandy Dalton, a master of the craft of legislative lobbying and inside politics, but also a man who always seems, somehow, to find a way to make the system work.

Book Award Winner – Bookfest Book Awards, Winter 2024. Third place in two separate mystery categories: Fiction – Detective – Amateur Sleuths and in Fiction – Mystery – Murder & Crime

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