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Truth Be Told: A Novel by Kathleen Barber
4.0
Josie has spent over ten years using a different name, and hiding out from her family. After her father’s murder, and then her mom leaving them, Josie just wanted to move on and have nothing to do with her mess of a twin sister. She is now living in New York with Caleb. However, when an investigator decides to start a podcast on Josie’s fathers murder, Josie is forced home as he mother kills herself. Since Caleb knows nothing of her family except that she has none, Josie tells him an aunt died and she goes off to visit home and the family that awaits her without him.
I love a good murder podcast, so I was immediately drawn to this book. It did make me think about the other side of the ideas of podcasts though. I am all for trying to find the truth, and definitely about exonerating those that were falsely convicted, but at the same time, nobody really thinks about the trauma it brings up for the family that thought they had closure. I really liked that this book showed the other side of the coin, and made you look at how it affected the family.
I love a good murder podcast, so I was immediately drawn to this book. It did make me think about the other side of the ideas of podcasts though. I am all for trying to find the truth, and definitely about exonerating those that were falsely convicted, but at the same time, nobody really thinks about the trauma it brings up for the family that thought they had closure. I really liked that this book showed the other side of the coin, and made you look at how it affected the family.