The Whole Truth

Ted Bundy. Hannibal Lecter. Florida killer Raymond Raintree has been compared to the most notorious of monsters, be they real or imagined. But the crime Raintree stands trial for -- the brutal murder of Natalie Mae McCullen -- is all too real. For gutsy true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot, a reluctant celebrity in her own right, the case is the stuff of her next surefire bestseller. But some of the evidence has made Marie wonder...and she is lured to retrace the dark night on a lonely waterway where Natalie disappeared. The deeper the steely-nerved writer digs, the more she must face the dark recesses of her own past -- and the bottomless darkness inside a killer's heart of pure evil...

<B>Nancy Pickard,</B> creator of the acclaimed Jenny Cain mystery series, won the Anthony Award for <I>Say No to Murder,</I> a Macavity Award for <I>Marriage Is Murder,</I> and two Agatha Awards for Best Novel, for <I>Bum Steer</I> (1990) and <I>I.O.U.</I> (1991). A former reporter and editor, she is a past president of Sisters in Crime. She splits her time between Kansas and Florida.