Reviewed by Susan McBride, MyShelf.com
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Marie Lightfoot is back again in RING OF TRUTH, the follow-up to Nancy Pickard's Edgar nominated THE WHOLE TRUTH. Lightfoot, a true crime writer, gets a case this time that seems so obvious on the surface. But is it really? The Reverend Bob Wing's wife, Susanna, is murdered, brutally raped and beaten then left to rot in an old mansion in a Florida town. Apparently, he was having an affair with a pretty and very wealthy parishioner named Artemis "Artie" MacGregor. Bob Wing is convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to die by the jury. Artie gets off scot-free.
The more Lightfoot investigates the story
to fill in some missing pieces in her book about the sensational case, the more
she realizes things are most certainly not as they seem. Pickard actually
weaves together several subplots that are equally interesting, another seemingly
unrelated murder case and the debate about capital punishment. Fans of
THE WHOLE TRUTH will not be disappointed by RING OF TRUTH. It is suspenseful
with plenty of
twists built-in so that I couldn't figure out
the truth myself until two-thirds of the way through, not a great score for
someone who prides herself on knowing the answers about 50 pages in.
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