A Truth for a Truth by Carol Wyer
DI Kate Young’s team is hunting for a killer. What they don’t know…is that the killer is her.
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?
About the author
USA Today bestselling author and winner of The People's Book Prize Award, Carol Wyer's crime novels have sold over one million copies and been translated into nine languages.
A move from humour to the 'dark side' in 2017, saw the introduction of popular DI Robyn Carter in Little Girl Lost and proved that Carol had found her true niche.
February 2021 saw the release of the first in the much-anticipated new series, featuring DI Kate Young. An Eye For An Eye was chosen as a Kindle First Reads and became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia.
Carol has had articles published in national magazines 'Woman's Weekly', featured in 'Take A Break', 'Choice', 'Yours' and 'Woman's Own' magazines and the Huffington Post. She's also been interviewed on numerous radio shows discussing ''Irritable Male Syndrome' and 'Ageing Disgracefully' and on BBC Breakfast television.
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.
To learn more, go to www.carolwyer.co.uk, subscribe to her YouTube channel, or follow her on Twitter: @carolewyer
Review
‘A Truth for a Truth’ is the fourth instalment of the DI Kate Young series and it was certainly worth the wait! From the very first page, you can feel the tension from the get-go and it doesn't stop until the very last sentence. As the reader you are consuming all the fear and tension that Kate is feeling and it makes for an engrossing and gripping read. Normally I would say you could read a book in a crime series as a standalone but in this case I do think you need to have read the first three books as there is a lot of information and background that enhances this book as you read it.
DI Kate Young finally has some proof that her boss Superintendent John Dickson is a dirty cop. But during their showdown, he pulls out a gun and in the ensuing struggle Kate accidentally shoots him. Faced with two choices of reporting his death or concealing it she picks the latter option. Now back at work struggling with her decision and his death Kate’s team is asked to track Dickson. Kate has to lie to people she trusts in order to hide his death. As his corruption becomes public knowledge Kate begins to try and tie up loose ends and aims to get in touch with a sex worker Stanka, who was the brave girl who gave evidence to bring down Dickson. She is continually butting heads with another colleague DI Harriet Khatri and Kate knows that Dickson’s syndicate of bad cops doesn't end with him. Is she part of the syndicate?
This is a fast-paced and tense book that really grips the reader. It is full of twists and turns, and plenty of reveals you won't see coming. I flew through this in one day and honestly I couldn't put it down until I knew what happened to Kate and her team. But Kate is a changed person, she is now the person she hates. Someone who is covering up her crimes, a killer and she has to wrestle with this in her mind. Kate is fragile and her state mind reflects this as she returns to mumbling, having conversation in her head and talking about loud to her ‘lodgers’! But at her core she is the same strong woman determined to find out the truth and take down those in the force who are dirty. She is having to hide what has happened, whilst still managing to root out the evil. But has she crossed a personal moral line that she can't come back from? Is she as bad as those she is hunting?
Loved this one! Let me know if you pick this one up!
