What She Will Become

As the turbulent Kennedy administration begins Alexandra Zsofia Bel a congressional staffer with a suspicious past investigates the murder of a State Department lawyer despite risks to her own life. Alex has changed her last name to Bell her hair color to blond and her life story to middle-class American to get a job in government. She had hoped to keep her personal history a secret in her new life in Washington but she risks exposure to catch a murderer before J. Edgar Hoovers FBI catches her first. Alex finds the corruption in the nations capital stinks like the sewage-laden Potomac River. She along with her little dog Miss Bea a cynical beagle and Jack Russell mix follow the scent and she also has to use new Washington contacts as well as her familys connections to find the killer and reveal a conspiracy. This novel is the first of a planned series featuring Alex Bell that will be set in the volatile decade of the 1960s.