Barbara Michaels Smoke and Mirrors and Jayne Ann Krentz Flash--2 books about election campaigns

* Smoke and Mirrors (Michaels) about a young woman working on a woman's campaign for senator in VA

* Flash (Krentz) about a woman business entrepreneur working on campaign events for a woman running for governor of WA

Each book is a mystery/suspence/romance novel.

Have you read either? What did you think of it?

Are there more good mysteries about election campaigns?

Dick Francis wrote a good mystery about a man involved in British politics. IIRC, the book is The 10 Pound Weight. It's written from the viewpoint of the man's son, and follow's the son from late teens to mid-twenties.