What I'm Reading Now -- A Simple Act of Violence

In my continued (and of late, disappointing) attempt to find a good, page-turning murder mystery, I downloaded the ebook version of A Simple Act of Violence. 

The case with this one, as happens to me frequently, is that I can't remember why I had jotted its title down. Probably I read about it somewhere or someone recommended it to me and, knowing that I would forget the title if I didn't make a note of it, I made a note. What I consistently neglect to do - often because I'm in the middle of a conversation I'd like to continue - is also include any detail about any of the Ws of the source: who recommended it, what it's about, why it came up in conversation, when in my life it seemed relevant.  (I don't really have a "where" for this particular topic.)

As expected, I didn't know what it was about when I downloaded it but it seems to be set in Washington, DC, and have a somewhat political bent. Not usually my favored subject area, but we'll see.