A review by xcampuskiddo
Truth Will Out by K.C. Wells

3.0

This one is a fairly straightforward, feel-good romp. I am not very good at solving mysteries, but this one I had the perp and the motive pegged from pretty early on, so it was just a matter of listening along until I found out that I was right. Fortunately, the writing is generally well done, if a bit pat in places (for example, the mystery was wrapped up quite cleanly at the end, which makes for a nice conclusion but not so much for a realistic one), so I didn't feel like I was spending a significant amount of time screeching at the characters to stop being stupid already. Though there was one major clue at the beginning, I could mostly buy that the main character wouldn't have considered what it meant, or at least buy it enough to keep listening. The romantic arc between the MC and the love interest is extremely tame, to the point where I had a hard time believing that both characters weren't a-spec, and nearly to the point where I couldn't believe they were really much more than good friends who occasionally liked to hug each other. When action did finally occur, it was behind closed doors, and not much of a fuss was made over it. But, if you can handle some canned plotting, prefer not to have your romantic action right on stage, and enjoy basic feel-good romantic mysteries that don't need to feel realistic to be enjoyable, this one is not a terrible one to check out.