Murder, Danger, Romance!
TRUTH BE TOLD
Annalee Spain Mystery #3!
"Heart-gripping perfection." — Michelle Shocklee
When a pretty stranger is found murdered in a rich man's Denver garden, and amateur detective Annalee Spain prays to solve the crime, will she also unearth the truth of her own deepest secrets, longings, and lies?
COMING JUNE 2024
It's 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.
But when Coates’s young daughter discovers a pretty stranger dead in her father’s garden shed, Annalee is thrust onto the baffling new case while already 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, the orphaned boy Eddie, and her trustworthy church friends, Annalee follows the clues to three seemingly disconnected settings—a rundown traveling carnival set up downtown, an upscale Black women's 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 probing discussion questions for book groups.
PRAISE FOR TRUTH BE TOLD
"History and mystery come together with heart-gripping perfection in Patricia Raybon's Truth Be Told. Her skillful storytelling reminds us that with faith, truth, and courage, even the darkest shadows can be overcome with Light." — Michelle Shocklee, Christianity Today Book Award-winning author of Count the Nights by Stars
"A powerful read. It's exactly what I was looking for in a mystery--a richness and roundness that I don’t typically encounter in the Christian mystery subgenre. Raybon set a high bar in her writing of the first two Annalee Spain mysteries, but the third installment shatters that bar. Truth Be Told is my new, uncontested, favorite in the Annalee Spain series. — Stephanie Agnes-Crockett, Stephanie's Ninth Suitcase Reviews
"Raybon’s historical novels have one of the freshest series heroines I’ve come across in quite some time." — Molly Odintz, editor, CrimeReads on Double the Lies
