THE FOOL’S TRUTH

By Loretta H. Marion

“The Fool’s Truth” is an interesting page-turner—a mystery with just the right splash of romance that keeps the action and thrills going until the very end. Taking the reader on a detour to the backwoods of Maine, a million shadowy secrets come to light.

Cordelia Richmond is a woman on the run. Deciding to escape from her abusive husband, she has taken her toddler daughter away with her in order to keep them both alive with the help of her old friend, Ramon Alvarez.

Cord’s escape, however, is brought to a sudden stop when she breaks down in Murphy, Maine. There, she has car trouble and has to spend time in limbo while waiting for help to arrive. This detour quickly turns into a nightmare when she and her daughter find themselves stranded on an isolated farm, along with a peculiar woman who starts to take an odd interest in her daughter. Even more complications crop up when the local sheriff in town, as well as a nosy reporter, get in to Cord’s business. Both of these people have their own agendas for hanging out in Murphy and neither of those is good. Soon, Cordelia begins to regret the lies she told to the one person who might just be looking for her…if only he could find out which direction she went.

This is definitely one of those fast-paced, intricate reads that no reviewer wants to give away too much information about for fear of ruining the plot. Let us just say that the number of mysterious paths these characters walk will keep any suspense lover intrigued. Never a dull moment, it almost feels as if the reader is right by Cord’s side as she escapes from one devil just to find herself lost among many.