Book Review: Truth Hurts

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Nancy Pickard
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Woman Main Character   Psychological Suspense
Series: Marie Lightfoot # 3
Pocket, July 2002, $24.00, 336 pp.

She has interviewed and written about killers, psychopaths and spree killers but all her researching skills never enabled her to close in on the truth about what happened to her parents when they seemingly vanished into thin air. True crime writer Marie Lightfoot has given up hope of proving that her parents weren’t traitors to the civil rights movement.

One day while shopping at the local supermarket, she picks up a paper and reads about her parents who betrayed a civil rights group called the Hostel in their hometown of Sebastion, Alabama. She is later contacted by email by a man claiming to know the whole story of her parents’ death and wants to collaborate with Marie about writing a true crime book where she is the victim. Marie’s search for answers takes her back to the town of her birth and a deadly conspiracy that is almost four decades old.

Nancy Pickard has written another exciting installment in her delightful "Marie Lightfoot" crime thriller series. This time the protagonist is portrayed as the victim and through the first person narrative, the audience sees how she suffers. The confrontation with the killers of Marie’s parents is so astonishing that readers will never be able to get the scene out of their heads.

Harriet Klausner

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