Final Truth
A Novel of Suspense
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4.6 • 32 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A woman who specializes in exposing lies finds herself trapped in a real-life nightmare in this “fast-paced” (Booklist) and sexy novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Truth.
“Mariah Stewart is one to watch and savor for a long time.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes it kills.
Star crime journalist Regan Landry has long struggled to emerge from the shadow of her literary-legend father. Now she’s onto the story of a lifetime: a convicted rapist-murderer freed from death row hours before his execution. Lester Ray Barnes had maintained his innocence from the very beginning—but a week after speaking to Regan, he mysteriously vanishes . . . and soon afterward, young women start turning up dead on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Is it a coincidence, or merely the next chapter in a grisly saga that should have ended in the death chamber?
Tracking a trail of chilling clues, Regan and FBI special agent Mitch Peyton must confront the horrifying possibility that they have helped to free a cunning monster with an insatiable appetite for death—and a ruthless determination never to be caged again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of the fourth novel of romantic suspense in Stewart's Truth series (after 2005's Dark Truth), Regan Landry-the daughter of a deceased true crime writer who's followed in his footsteps to great acclaim-is floundering around for a new book idea. When fraud at a DNA lab is uncovered and several rape and murder convictions are overturned, Regan thinks she's found her story. She'll write about Lester Ray Barnes, wrongly convicted of murder, now set free. But shortly after Barnes is released from prison, several dead bodies turn up-women whose lips have been smeared with blood and who hold a clump of flowers in their lifeless hands, just like Barnes's purported first victim. Is Barnes, in fact, a ruthless killer, or is someone trying to set him up? Regan, working with her delicious beau, FBI agent Mitch Peyton, is determined to find out. While a revelation about Regan's family comes out of left field and the culminating scene in which the real killer is unmasked isn't exactly surprising, Regan's charm and the novel's fast pace will keep readers turning the pages.
