The Truth Of It All
A Novel
$54.15
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2021
Summary
A hot-button legal case fuels a community’s smoldering hostility–but the dark secret at its heart could set the town ablaze.
Public defender Julia Geary moves through life in simmering resentment–at her husband, a soldier killed in Iraq, leaving her a single mother; at her low-paying job; and at her overbearing mother-in law, whose home she shares. She longs for a breakout case, and it arrives when members of the high school soccer team report seeing a teammate–Iraqi refugee Sami Moha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781643858579 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1643858572 |
| Author: | Gwen Florio |
| Publisher: | Crooked Lane Books |
| Imprint: | Crooked Lane Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 568g |
| Dimensions: | 162mm x 242mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for The Truth of it All:
“Florio invests her characters with humanity, along with touches of humility.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A great storyline”
—Manhattan Book Review
“A story that leaps from the page … [and] strong, true-to-life characters.”
—Big Sky Journal
“Gwen Florio is the real deal, a terrific writer with a unique and powerful style of her own. The Truth of it All is a winner on every level—hot button issues, moral dilemmas, believable characters, everything that makes a legal thriller work. Highly recommended.”
—John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of the Dismas Hardy series
“A page-turner from the opening sentence. Public Defender Julia Geary is a character to root for in a red-hot case that strikes a town at its very core. I couldn’t read fast enough.”
―Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series
“Gripping, timely, thoughtful … and a damn good read.”
—Michael Kaufman, author of The Last Exit
Praise for Gwen Florio:
“A first-rate writer.”
—Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author
“Gorgeous, illuminating, resonant, thrilling.”
—Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year, on Silent Hearts
“Florio achieves what few others can in the field of crime fiction.”
—J. J. Hensley, award-winning author of Resolve and Measure Twice
“Gwen Florio weaves a compelling tapestry.”
—Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mysteries
Gwen Florio
Longtime journalist Gwen Florio moved to fiction in 2013 with her first novel, MONTANA, which won the Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction and a High Plains Book Award. Four more novels followed in the Lola Wicks crime series, termed “gutsy” by the New York Times. SILENT HEARTS (Atria), a standalone novel set in Afghanistan, was published in 2018. BEST LAID PLANS (Severn House) was released in the United Kingdom in 2020 and United States in early 2021, and a new series (Crooked Lane) featuring a young public defender is set for publication in fall 2021. She lives in Missoula, Montana.
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