The Truth about the Devlins
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4.1 • 332 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA Today Bestseller
Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator.
But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he murdered one of their clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin.
TJ plunges into the investigation, seizing the chance to prove his worth and save his brother. But in no time, TJ and John find themselves entangled in a lethal web of deception and murder. TJ will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A seemingly upstanding family turns out to be anything but in this gripping legal thriller. Youngest son TJ Devlin doesn’t fit in. As a recovering alcoholic with a criminal record, he’s worlds apart from his siblings and parents with their fancy law firm. But after a shocking revelation from his brother, TJ gets thrown headfirst into a dark and sinister world filled with murder, chaos, and a spiraling pharmaceutical conspiracy which threatens to derail him completely. Best-selling author Lisa Scottoline seamlessly blends tense legal and family drama, hurtling us through layers of deceit that TJ is also desperately trying to understand. We loved exploring the tense relationships between the family members, who seem hell-bent on destroying each other. This is a suspenseful and well-crafted thriller with a lot of heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A wealthy Philadelphia family's dysfunction threatens to undo them in the engrossing latest from Scottoline (What Happened to the Bennetts). Married attorneys Paul and Marie Devlin work beside their two eldest children and fellow lawyers, John and Gabrielle, at their esteemed family firm. TJ, the youngest Devlin, is a recovering alcoholic with a criminal record who works as the firm's informal "investigator," spending most of his days doing busywork to keep him out of trouble. When John tells TJ he may have accidentally killed a client one night, a shocked TJ agrees to help his brother avoid arrest. As TJ digs deeper into the client's death, however, he uncovers his siblings' involvement in a vast pharmaceutical conspiracy that puts his safety and sobriety at risk. Scottoline successfully anchors the story's legalese and shady pharma dealings in TJ's personal struggles, wringing real emotion from his gradual realization that, while he may be the Devlins' black sheep, he's far from the family's most amoral member. The midsection sags a bit, but for the most part, this is a ripping blend of legal and family drama.
Customer Reviews
Triggering but good
Well…as a recovery alcoholic with 25 years of sobriety, I admit to being triggered in the early chapters. Well-done getting into the head of the newly sober. Enjoyed the story.
Spellbinding
Once I started reading this book I couldn’t put it down! The book was intriguing from start to finish.
Boring.
I usually love this author and I almost always persist when a book starts off slow. Not this time. I’m a couple hundred pages into it and it is not only boring but contrived. Disappointed