The Truth about the Devlins - Paperback

by Lisa Scottoline (Author)

From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family and justice, the ties that bind us, and the lies that tear us apart.

T.J. Devlin is the charming disappointment in the Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their eponymous law firm--except him. He works at the firm as its investigator, after rehab for alcoholism and a stint in prison.

One night, T.J.'s older brother John tells him that he killed his client, an accountant, in self-defense, during a fight that ensued after John had confronted the accountant with evidence of embezzlement. T.J. and John hurry to the scene, but they find that the accountant has vanished and so has his car.

T.J. starts investigating, but the next night, police find the accountant dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound--in a different car and at a different location. Soon a mysterious sedan starts following T.J. and John, and the Devlins realize they are in the crosshairs of a conspiracy . T.J. will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first.

Author Biography

Lisa Scottoline is the number-one bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of thirty-five novels. A former President of Mystery Writers of America, she has thirty million copies of her books in print and has been published in thirty-five countries. Her books have been optioned for film and TV, and she has also co-authored a series of humorous memoirs with her daughter, novelist Francesca Serritella. A former lawyer, Scottoline taught a course she developed, "Justice & Fiction," at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives on a farm outside Philadelphia with an array of disobedient pets.