Jake has a responsibility to the victims and their families to bring some closure to a tragic event, but closure is never more important than justice. Who is guilty? Who is innocent? Are they exclusive of one another? Is the complete truth ever told? Jane's job depends on getting the big scoop, but Jane's personal wiring demands that the innocent are not collateral damage. Truth is always the goal for reporter Jane Ryland and detective Jake Brogan, but never more than now in stories/cases where innocence and guilt are hidden in complex motivations and decades-old secrets. That's just the beginning of complicated in this story.

Jake's involvement in another case, the twenty-year-old Lilac Sunday murder and a new confession to that murder, coupled with the now empty house murder results in the cancellation of his and Jane's romantic weekend. With the eviction story intertwined with a murder, Jane and Jake must once again work out their personal and professional boundaries. Jane's and Jake's yet undetermined relationship that is moving towards definition with an upcoming weekend to Bermuda is still under wraps due to their conflicting careers, her wanting the scoop on a story and Jake required to keep mum about his cases. As the only reporter on the scene, Jane is there when Jake Brogan, Boston PD detective shows up to take charge. Covering the emptying of one such family's possessions from their home by sheriff's deputies, Jane and her camera man are taking notes and recording the callousness of the event when the dead body of a young woman is found inside the house, putting a halt to the action and transforming yet an eviction story into a murder scene.

Jane's current assignment is the foreclosure aspect of banks against those who have taken out loans and can no longer keep up the payments due to unemployment or some other unforeseen hardship. In Truth Be Told, Jane is dealing with a new editor at the Register, the newspaper where Jane is still getting her footing after a public parting of the ways with her television news career. Reading Hank's novels is experiencing reader satisfaction extraordinaire. So, I am placing my review of this sure-to-be-another-award-winning-book at the beginning of my tribute to this favorite author of mine. I was fortunate, as in the sense of fireworks celebration, to receive an ARC of Truth Be Told, and it is the upcoming publication and my reading of this third book in the Jane Ryland series that I wish to address first. Hank Phillippi Ryan has a new novel coming out on the 7th of October entitled Truth Be Told.

The other woman by hank phillippi ryan