Dan Cooper has never been the perfect husband to Lisa. He travels for work and plays the carefree bachelor when he can. But now, on a solo business trip, in a remote coastal hotel, he’s surprised to find Lisa in his bedroom. She’s dead.
He has no idea how she got there, but one chilling fact is clear: everything points to Dan having murdered her. Someone is trying to frame him. Someone who might still be watching. In panic, he goes on the run. But even as he flees across Europe, his unknown assailant stacks up the evidence against him.
Dan is determined to clear his name and take revenge on Lisa’s killer, but the culprit is closing in. And then there’s the agony of his own guilty conscience. No, he didn’t kill her—but is it all his fault?
2.5 STARS…Dan is a self-absorbed jerk, but is he a killer? The majority of the book is first person POV, so most of the time is spent in Dan’s head (there are also a few chapters in third person POV which delve into Dan’s past, these were the most interesting chapters in the book). Which would be fine, but Dan is self-absorbed a******. He travels all the time for work and sleeps with any woman who looks at him twice whenever he can. So I guess it shouldn’t have surprised me that when Dan finds out his wife has been murdered, almost all of his…
Absorbing psychological suspense… Oh how I enjoy the first day of the month – I fortunately have my husbands kindle so managed to get two first picks this month and absolutely loved “Only the Truth” by Adam Croft. Which I know ‘love’ is a strange word for the genre of Psychological Suspense but once you read it you’ll understand – it’s utterly absorbing! I knew it would be completely addictive as I have read other books by him and his writing style is so fluent and so easy you just keep swiping the pages. ‘Only the…
Excellent Writing Draws Readers In While one might believe this is merely another murder story where the accused person has to establish his innocence, “Only the Truth” has more of a realistic feel to it. The protagonist is not a super spy, ex-cop, ex-military, or anyone special…just someone whose usual habits have gotten him into more trouble than might normally happen. Here’s a quick rundown, without spoilers: