With The Whole Truth and Ring of Truth, award-winning author Nancy Pickard introduced the intrepid Marie Lightfoot, a gutsy and charismatic true-crime writer, and kicked oV a sensational new series that sealed her reputation as one of today's top practitioners of chilling, fast-paced, and original thrillers (Detroit Free Press). Now Marie Lightfoot faces an unusually challenging case because this time it's personal -- painfully so, as it concerns the central mystery of her life: her parents' disappearance. My dear Marie, Do you give any thought to life after death? They say that when dead people hover around the living, it is because they are stuck at the place where they died. They can't move on. I hope for your sake that doesn't happen to you, Marie, because I don't think you'll want to linger in the place where I will kill you.... When the first E-mail arrives it seems like a joke: A man writes that he loves Marie's work and wants her to collaborate with him by becoming his victim and writing a book about her own murder right up to the moment of her death. If she doesn't cooperate, he promises, he will hurt someone close to her. Marie is merely unsettled until more threatening E-mails arrive and the young children of her lover, State Attorney Franklin DeWeese, become targets of vicious pranks. Until the police can apprehend her tormentor, Marie has no choice but to play along, following her co-author's instructions to write her life story and return to her birthplace, a small town in Alabama. There Marie seeks out a group of the town's most prominent citizens. Forty years ago, they worked clandestinely in the civil rights movement alongside herparents, who disappeared during the explosive summer of 1963. Trying to untangle the divided loyalties, secrets, lies, and misunderstandings that have obscured the truth about her parents, Marie races to unravel the secrets of the past and outwit a killer before she is forced to write her final page. Filled with rich characterizations, steadily escalating suspense, and a rare depth of emotion, The Truth Hurts draws readers into a mystery that spans the present day and the tense, heartbreaking early days of America's civil rights movement. In a novel as complex and captivating as her inimitable heroine, Nancy Pickard keeps readers guessing until the Wnal page is turned.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Atria Books
ISBN-10
0743412036
ISBN-13
9780743412032
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2160058
Product Key Features
Book Title
Truth Hurts
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
General, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Nancy Pickard
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
2002-510452
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Lc Classification Number
Ps3566.I274t78 2002b
Copyright Date
2002
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