The Truth Hurts
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The Truth Hurts

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Truth Hurts

About this book

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 her parents, 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.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter 1: Marie
  4. Chapter 2: Marie
  5. Chapter 3: Marie
  6. Chapter 4: Marie
  7. Chapter 5: Marie
  8. Chapter 6: Marie
  9. Chapter 7: Marie
  10. Chapter 8: Marie
  11. Chapter 9: Marie
  12. Chapter 10: Marie
  13. Chapter 11: Marie
  14. Chapter 12: Marie
  15. Chapter 13: Marie
  16. Chapter 14: Marie
  17. Chapter 15: Marie
  18. Chapter 16: Marie
  19. Chapter 17: Marie
  20. Chapter 18: Marie
  21. Chapter 19: Marie
  22. Chapter 20: Marie
  23. Chapter 21: Marie
  24. Chapter 22: Marie
  25. Chapter 23: Marie
  26. Chapter 24: Marie
  27. Chapter 25: Marie
  28. Chapter 26: Marie
  29. Chapter 27: Marie
  30. Chapter 28: Marie
  31. Chapter 29: Marie
  32. Chapter 30: Marie
  33. Chapter 31: Marie
  34. Chapter 32: Marie
  35. Chapter 33: Marie
  36. Chapter 34: Marie
  37. Chapter 35: Marie
  38. Copyright

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Information

Publisher
Atria Books
Year
2002
Topic
Literature
Print ISBN
9780743412049
Subtopic
Literature General
eBook ISBN
9780743423236
Index
Literature

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