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After the death of her mother, Lorna Stiles returns to her Pennsylvania hometown where she has plenty of good memories as well as one bad one. About 25 years ago, she was celebrating a small birthday party with her best friend Melinda Eagan. It was the last time that she ever saw her and she feared the worst. Melinda came from an abusive family and she would often come to the Stiles' home to get away. Ever since she disappeared Lorna has been living with guilt wondering if her friend is still alive or dead. Could she have done something at that young age? All those memories keep flooding back as she is back at her mother's house trying to figure out what to do with her mother's belongings and the house. What she is unaware of is that the past is going to come back to haunt her in ways she never thought possible. In order to pay for her mother's chemotherapy Lorna's family sold some of their farmland to developers who have just started construction on the land. While digging they make the grisly discovery of finding the bones of a murdered child from almost 20 years ago. Lorna fears the worse but learns that it is the body of Melinda's brother, a suspect in her disappearance. Now the police are focusing on the child's mother, a woman who has lost it all when her children vanished all those years ago who is now trying to live her life. Lorna thinks that Melinda's mother is innocent and she hires a private eye to get to the bottom of it. At the same time, someone who thought that the past was buried is now panicking, bringing fresh death to the small town. Can Lorna get to the bottom of things before the police can? HARD TRUTH is a fast-paced novel that fulfills its purpose of entertaining the reader. It is filled with movie-of-the-week material. As with most of these types of books it suffers a bit from coincidence, lack of characterization among some of the secondary characters, incompetent police officers, and a predictable showdown. Still, I liked it, and recommend it with reservation. This is the type of book you read for a short plane flight or while waiting at the doctor's office. You won't remember much of it after a week's time.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, March 2006
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