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$4.99 is not a great sale price, but eReaderIQ doesn't show it any cheaper since 2014, and I like this book...so....

The Fly on the Wall is one of two non-series fiction works by Tony Hillerman. It was published, per SYKM, around the same time as Hillerman published his first Leaphorn mystery. I remember reading it in DTB and really liking it, and then I got it in ebook from Fictionwise (IMS) and really liked it a second time around. And I just reread it again now for fun, and found that parts of it are still pretty apt.

It's a political thriller, but also almost feels like a police procedural, albeit with a reporter doing the investigation, and quite different than the Leaphorn/Chee books, although a little bit of it is set in New Mexico. Anyway, as mentioned above, it has dropped to $4.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC11VU

Spoiler:

Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall -- seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend's corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide ... and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden.