Betty's Reviews > 3 Truths and a Lie

Boston Detective D. D. Warren lets her husband Alex talk her in to attending the “Writers’ Police Academy” in Wisconsin on a free weekend. Alex has given workshops here several times and really enjoys helping writers with details for their mystery/thriller police procedural stories. D. D. has no idea what she is going to say to her packed classroom, especially since she didn’t expect to be a very big draw. The placard on the classroom’s door says “Insider’s Guide to Policing”; that doesn’t sound like her. She recognizes thriller writer Karin Slaughter, who is the keynote speaker; and Kathy Reichs a forensic anthropologist, who knows a lot more about dead bodies than she ever will.

Alex had told his wife that when he addressed authors in the past, he found that the bloodier the case, the happier the audience. D. D. decides to share one of her own very strange and bloody case with her audience that involves a sleazy motel, a hooker, and a sawed off leg. She advises that this case contains three truths and a lie. It will be up to them to solve and discover the lie.

3 TRUTHS AND A LIE is a novella; a prequel to Lisa’s Gardner’s next title, FIND HER. Ms. Gardner delivers careful plotting with plenty of intrigue, and flawed eccentric characters to these writers – and to us, her devoted readers. With the clues given, the mystery comes together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Betty Cox, ReaderToReader.com