Item: The Unbidden Truth
Rating: 3.00
Author: thespookybookshelf

by Kate Wilhelm

Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases–and winning them.

But even she can't begin to anticipate the bizarre twists waiting ahead. The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete anonymity is not the only thing that intrigues Barbara Holloway. The defendant, Carol Fredricks, is a gifted young pianist charged with killing the manager of a piano bar.

But Carol is as much of a mystery as the details of the murder for which she is accused. She can't remember anything about her life before the age of eight, and she has been having haunting nightmares about a woman she cannot identify.

Before long Barbara becomes convinced that her client is not only innocent, but is being framed by an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. And as she unravels the stunning trail of deception, hatred and a remarkable abiding love that holds the key to the mystery of Carol Fredricks, Barbara discovers that the unbidden truth may just damn them both.

This book was very good except for a GLARING discrepancy that I'm surprised nobody caught. In the course of the story, there is a gal doing some undercover work, and when she is asked to find out where a wig was purchased, she tells the lawyer that she wasn't able to find out. In the VERY NEXT paragraph, they state that the problem was the wig shop was in San Francisco and they're in Oregon.

Obviously her editors and proofreaders were out to lunch mentally when they went over this book because that was an error I found to be quite glaring.

Other than that it was a great book with a lot of twists and turns and was really hard to put down.

The Unbidden Truth (A Barbara Holloway Novel, #2) (Barbara Holloway Mysteries, #8) (Barbara Holloway Novels)

by Kate Wilhelm

Reviewed by Charli G. on Mar 1, 2008

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