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A Truth for a Truth by Carol Wyer Narrator: Henrietta Meire
Series: Detective Kate Young #4
Published by Thomas & Mercer on April 4, 2023
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Pages: 411
Length: 11 hours, 51 minutes
Format: Audiobook, eARC
Source: NetGalley, Publisher
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DI Kate Young has known for years that her boss, Superintendent John Dickson, is a violent and evil man. But when she finally confronts him and accidentally shoots and kills him, she’s forced to cover her tracks before anyone can pin his death on her. With revelations about his corruption soon to become public knowledge, Kate sets up a trail of evidence to make it seem that Dickson has conveniently vanished…
But Kate knows the corruption doesn’t end with Dickson. As she heads up the team investigating his supposed disappearance, she also pursues other loose ends. Stanka, the sex worker who supplied the evidence against Dickson, leads her to crucial information on another corrupt officer, DI Harriet Khatri, and her dubious involvement with sex traffickers.
As the noose starts to tighten on Kate, she finds herself targeted by traffickers, the bent cops on her force and even her own team of detectives. Can she stay one step ahead of them all and bring Harriet to justice? Can she trust anyone around her? And can she possibly get away with murder?
The Detective Kate Young series really takes off at a furious pace, with plenty of emotional angst if you are rooting for Kate. Kate continues her work on investigating her husband’s death and department corruption. It takes her over the fine line of the law. She knows the corrupt are stacked against her and it takes all she has to combat them.
Kate still has plenty of grief over losing her husband, and worry over the girls being trafficked who easily will continue to be hurt of killed. She’s up for the promotion but really only cares about bringing the killer and the corrupt to justice.  She keeps things close to the vest to protect her team from the corrupted officers and to protect the girls. It does cause some doubts from her small team.
Kate is also trying to track down the corrupted through a mobile phone she found and does identify more of them to her shock and disappointment. She provides actual evidence she has against her boss who she knows is corrupt to her husband’s journalist friend, and the stories in the papers with documented evidence, adds to people not trusting the police and the media frenzy.
In the end, Kate is somewhat successful in bringing a few of the corrupt to justice and saving some girls. But the story ends in a bit of a cliffhanger as to what will happen for Kate. A Truth for a Truth was suspenseful and exciting; I enjoyed it very much.
Narration:
This narrator was new to me with this series. Kate is the primary character and the narration is like a stream of her thoughts. I enjoy her performance of Kate and the others on her team. I am comfortable with both male and female voices which sound appropriate for the region. The voices were differentiated for other characters. I listened at my normal 1.5x speed.
Listen to a clip: HERE
About Carol Wyer
A former teacher and linguist, Carol began writing full-time in 2009 and enjoyed much success with several comedies and humorous non-fiction books, one of which, Grumpy Old Menopause won her the People’s Book Prize Award in 2015.
January 2017, saw her move into police procedurals with Little Girl Lost, the first in the DI Robyn Carter series, that featured in USA Today Top 150 best selling books and became the #2 best-selling book on Amazon. The books, set in Staffordshire where Carol has lived for over 30 years, earned her acclaim as a crime writer and in 2018, a new team lead by DI Natalie Ward was introduced to her readers.
She currently lives on a windy hill in rural Staffordshire with her husband Mr Grumpy… who is very, very grumpy.
When she is not plotting devious murders, she can be found performing her comedy routine, Smile While You Still Have Teeth.
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I read all types of books but my favorites are urban fantasy and romantic suspense.I like some romance and some action / adventure / mystery in everything.I like sex in my books but please, only between TWO people.Intimate conversation is equally important to the sex in a book.It lets me see the characters.The other thing I enjoy is humor.
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This sounds like the type you binge listen to with the cliffhangers and overall series arc.
It certainly wouldn’t be a bad idea as they happen in a relatively short time frame overall.
Sounds like Kate is up against some horrible people and that she has her work cut out for her. Hope you get your hands on the next book soon seeing this was a cliffhanger!
Pretty sure it’s a year out but it will be interesting.
Still kicking myself for not starting this series. Glad you’re still enjoying, Anne💜
It’s kind of a weird series Jonetta. I like it but the main character is in her head and talks a lot to her dead husband and as the series goes on other dead people. That part is kind of bizarre but overall I like the series.
Glad you enjoyed this. It sounds really good.
yes thanks, I enjoyed it.