The Truth Hurts

by Nancy Pickard

Book Overview

With The Whole Truth and Ring of Truth, award-winning author Nancy Pickard introduced the intrepid Marie Lightfoot, a gutsy and charismatic true-crime writer, and kicked oV a sensational new series... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743412044
• ISBN13: 9780743412049
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

could this book be too well written?

In "Ring of Truth", the first Nancy Pickard mystery I read, the story revolved around the death penalty, a serious subject, but still very enjoyable recreational reading. "The Truth Hurts" has Marie Lightfoot researching the past of her missing parents, who abandoned her as a little baby at a colored hotel in 1963 in Alabama, during the height of the civil rights movement, and were never seen again. They were accused of betraying their fellow civil rights workers. Marie was raised by her aunt and uncle, themselves racists who were less than ideal parents for Marie and her beloved cousin, Nathan. Marie, now a true crime author, had used her research skills to poke halfheartedly into her parent's past and found out nothing. But when a stalker who knows more than he should about her parents threatens Marie and everyone she holds dear, she is forced to find out the truth. I loved the characters in this book, and the plot was very exciting, but it was just too painful to be a fun reading experience. Nancy Pickard is a really skillful writer, and she makes you feel the pain, degradation, and fear of a young black civil rights worker on the run after being released from a horrible jail cell. You feel Marie's fear for herself and her friends as the stalker models himself on the brutal stalker in "Cape Fear". I will always remember Robert Michum in the original "Cape Fear". He was so brutal, so relentless. The writing in this mystery was so good, I was actually uncomfortable reading the book, just as I was watching "Cape Fear".

exciting ?Marie Lightfoot? crime thriller

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