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Truth Be Told
by Patricia Raybon

    Publication Date: Jun 11, 2024
    List Price: $29.99
    Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781496458476
    Imprint: Tyndale House
    Publisher: Tyndale House
    Parent Company: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

    Hardcover Description:

    Denver’s newest detective. A garden’s deadly secrets.

    On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain is mingling bravely at a high-class political fundraiser in the lush backyard garden of famed political fixer Cooper Coates, one of the wealthiest men in Denver’s Black neighborhood of Five Points. When Coates’s young daughter discovers a pretty stranger dead in her father’s garden shed, Annalee is thrust onto the baffling new case just as she’s reeling from another recent discovery—a handwritten letter, found buried in her own garden, that reveals the identity of her mother.

    Not ready to face the truth about her hidden past, Annalee throws herself into solving the mystery of the young woman’s demise. With the help of her pastor boyfriend Jack Blake, her orphaned buddy Eddie, and her trustworthy church friends, Annalee follows the clues to three seemingly disconnected settings—a traveling carnival set up downtown, a Black civic club, and a prestigious white seminary on the outskirts of Denver. Intriguing advice also comes from a famous, real-life Denver visitor. But is Annalee on the right track or just running in circles, fleeing from conflicts racing in her heart?

    In a taut, heart-gripping narrative driven by secrets, romance, and lies, Annalee must unravel a case with higher stakes than she imagined—one where answers about a lovely woman’s death point to truths and tensions still throbbing today.

    A clean historical mystery featuring an amateur female detective, from the Christy Award-winning author of All That Is Secret
    Third installment in the Annalee Spain series
    Includes discussion questions for book groups