Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and #ZooloosBooktours, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Truth for a Truth in exchange for my honest review.
Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Truth for a Truth. Thank you ZooloosBooktours for inviting me to participate. I have long been a fan of Carol Wyer’s books and this is the latest book in her Kate Young series.
Do let me know if you end up picking this one up…I love knowing when someone picks up a book after they see it mentioned here!
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio
Published: April 6, 2023
Summary:
DI Kate Young’s team is hunting for a killer. What they don’t know…is that the killer is her.
DI Kate Young has known for years that her boss, Superintendent John Dickson, is a violent and evil man. But when she finally confronts him and accidentally shoots and kills him, she’s forced to cover her tracks before anyone can pin his death on her. With revelations about his corruption soon to become public knowledge, Kate sets up a trail of evidence to make it seem that Dickson has conveniently vanished…
But Kate knows the corruption doesn’t end with Dickson. As she heads up the team investigating his supposed disappearance, she also pursues other loose ends. Stanka, the sex worker who supplied the evidence against Dickson, leads her to crucial information on another corrupt officer, DI Harriet Khatri, and her dubious involvement with sex traffickers.
As the noose starts to tighten on Kate, she finds herself targeted by traffickers, the bent cops on her force and even her own team of detectives. Can she stay one step ahead of them all and bring Harriet to justice? Can she trust anyone around her? And can she possibly get away with murder?
My thoughts:
Carol Wyer is one of my favorite crime fiction writers and I really enjoy this series. This is the fourth book in her Detective Kate Young series. She has this knack for creating such unique, leading female characters and I am totally for it!
As much as these books stand on their own, I really think that in order to fully appreciate all that is going on, especially in this book, you would benefit from having read the previous books. This one picks up right where the last book ends and there are threads that have been building since the first book that have major tie-ins in here. Yes, the author does give some back-story but I think to really get the full picture, you are going to want to have all the pieces in play and the only way to do so is to have read the previous books. But that is just my opinion. Perhaps if you are coming to this book first and you really like this one, it will encourage you to go back and start at the beginning.
One of the things I love about this series is that you never know what is going to happen with a character. All along, Kate has been trying to find out what really happened to her husband and in doing so has uncovered major corruption within the police. She knows the superintendent is a major player in the corruption but is surprised to find out who else is involved. And this is where I found myself shocked at where Wyer is willing to go with her characters. She certainly had me fooled and I loved it! I never would have guessed her going there…but that’s good, right?
As we have in the previous books, we continue to get Kate’s internal struggles as she works her way through everything that is going on. She still has conversations with her dead husband, but now there are other voices talking back to her and this is where things went a little sideways for me. I get that it was probably the guilt eating at her, but I think it was a bit too much.
As with all the books in this series, there are the usual twists and turns and I found myself quite surprised at where things ultimately ended up, especially as we were left with another cliff-hanger. I guess that means there is another book to come? I do hope so because while this might not have been my most favorite installment of the series, I am definitely not ready for the series to come to an end!
Audio thoughts:
I was thrilled to see that Henrietta Meire was back to narrate this book. I love when there is consistency of narrators in a series and she has so far been the narrator for this entire series. Her voices and pacing are just right and I feel this book just lends itself to audio. I do hope she will stick around for the rest of the series…I love when it’s the same narrator all the way through!
Books in this series:
- An Eye for the Eye
- A Cut for a Cut
- A Life for a Life
- A Truth for a Truth
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