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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345476692
ISBN number: 0345476697
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: October 25, 2005
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: October 25, 2005
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WILL THE TRUTH SET HER FREE–OR SET A TRAP?
Murder didn’t end Nina Madden’s life–it destroyed it. When her father was charged with the serial killings of several college students, Nina and her mother became pariahs in their small Maryland town. Though Nina never believed the hideous accusations, evidence led to her father’s conviction and guaranteed the death penalty. After the execution, Nina left Stone River to escape the hatred and persecution . . . but she couldn’t shake the lingering doubts.
More than twenty years later, those doubts are stirred to grim life. A new series of murders is plaguing Stone River: a killing spree that bears a striking resemblance to the one that sent Nina’s father to the death chamber. And Nina isn’t the only one disturbed enough by the gruesome events to take notice. Wes Powell, the cop who pursued the original case, can’t ignore the eerie similarities between the crimes . . . nor their harrowing implications. Drawn back into a mystery that refuses to die, Nina and Wes will cross paths on their dangerous quest–and find themselves in the crosshairs of a bloodthirsty predator.
In matters of crime, there are many versions of the truth.
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This third book in the series isn't my favorite, but it was a pretty good read/listen.
Mariah Stewart always does a good job of sucking you in to the story and making you want to stick around until everything is resolved. Being a fan of series books, I love that we get new characters with news stories, but get to visit with old friends. Stewart is excellent at maintaining the ongoing story lines and I really enjoy that aspect of her writing.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a new favorite author. Her series are really quite good!
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If you like suspense, if you like well written characters and if you love exciting twists and turns than this is the book for you. Just make sure that once you start it you've left a nice open block of time to finish it because I promise, you won't be able to put it down!
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Very average crime novel. This is my very first time reading the "Truth" series. I agree with some of the reviewers who stated that the pieces of the story didn't fit. Very jarring in fact, for a very first time reader like me, the sub-plot was very unnecessary. It made me so confused, so who is this Eddie Kroll and what is he doing butting into the story like that? Then, again why dwell on the murder weapon and then leave it unresolved?
Next stop was how the story unfolded in a flash back narrative that takes away the thrill of reading a crime novel, it was too passive and mystery factor was diminished. Yes, you can solve this crime before you reach the end of the book. Quite obvious.
I will skip her books as this author specialises in flash back narrative murders. Not my type of crime thriller.
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Nina Madden is a book editor from New York City. Her parents were divorced and, after her mother died when she was fourteen, she lived with her college professor father, step-mom and step-brother. When she was eighteen, her father was arrested and eventually convicted of raping and murdering four of his students.
Nina lived with an aunt and tried to forget what her father did. Her father died in prison. Then Nina's step-mother dies and Nina receives a box of her father's prison belongings, including a letter her father wrote to her step-mom, maintaining his innocence and promising to never tell what the step-mom did.
The letter leads Nina to ask her true crime writer friend for help and they, along with a cop and FBI agent, dig deeper into the 16 year old murders.
This book was predictable and plodding, with an excruciating attention to Nina's movements which led to skimming. The killer was obvious (to me, anyway). The resolution was a mess, a convoluted, ridiculous mess. And whatever happened with trying to find the murder weapon? Did they ever find it? Do I care? No.
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Dark Truth is the third in the Truth series and honestly it is just a mediocre read in my opinion. I read some of the other reviewers and was a little stunned by what they wrote. It started off a bit slow and like the other books, there was a lot of tedious information that did not pertain to the story at all or more reiteration of events that the reader just read about. This is the very first in the series that I wouldn't classify as a stand alone book. Only because the underlying story with Regan and Mitch and her quest to find Eddie Kroll leaves the reader hanging. For those who read the two previous novels, they understand what is going on, but if one were to pick up this book without knowing anything about the connection and that Final Truth is the last book in the series, they would be very unhappy with the book. My only real problem with this series of books in comparison to other Mariah Stewart novels is that she never fully develops the characters emotions. It's more like reading the facts and not the real story.
I also have a hard time categorizing this book as a mystery thriller like another reviewer mentioned. There was very little of the whodunit aspect. Not enough blue herrings to make the reader surprised at the ending. I'm sorry, some may disagree with my opinion, but I just didn't think it was the kind of story you would remember after a couple of weeks.
So, is it worth the money? Not as a single novel. As part of the series, on sale maybe. This whole series would be better to have been checked out from the library if it were available. The second in the Truth series was definitely the best and did hold it's own. Dark Truth is better if followed with Final Truth.
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