BOOK REVIEW | The Whole Truth
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The Whole Truth
by James Scott Bell
Steve Conroy is a lawyer who’s about to run out of options. He’s divorced, sorely missing his ex-wife, struggling in the courtroom and trying to keep clean from his drug habit. When an opportunity arises out of the blue, Steve takes this as a sign to get his troubled life back on track. As he learns more about his new client, he starts to questions whether this opportunity is for real, especially when the client appears to be a blast from the past. Or the dead?
At age five, Steve witnessed his older brother’s abduction. Threatened by the abductor to not to tell, Steve has lived with the loss of his brother, the loss of his father to suicide and later his mother to illness. The guilt and sorrow has taken a toll on his life, career and marriage.
Then, along comes recently released, Johnny La Salle. The ex-con hires Steve and then claims to be his long-lost brother. With all his heart, Steve wants to believe what seems to be impossible. He will soon discover all is not what it seems. Despite the brother’s reunion, Johnny has ties to the La Salle family. Johnny wants to make up for lost time, but Steve wants nothing to do with the family who raised his brother. With his brother once lost and now found, Steve has an incredible choice to make.
Legal Grounds, was my first James Scott Bell read. Next, I read Try Dying. He’s definitely a master of the legal suspense thriller in the Christian Fiction market. While most of his main characters are lawyers, they are people you can empathize with instead of despise as most people like to do with lawyers. The arrogance is there usually veiled in humor, but the character has usually been humbled in some life-altering fashion.
In the beginning, I wanted to pull for this reunion between the brothers, but once I read about the people who raised Johnny, it didn’t sit too well with me. In some cases, it made me angry because there really are people like this in the world. I won’t give away the full details here in the review. I will say Bell created a stunning plot with some real curveballs in The Whole Truth.
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