Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Truth Be Told: A Jane Ryland Novel
    Truth Be Told: A Jane Ryland Novel
    Truth Be Told: A Jane Ryland Novel
    Audiobook12 hours

    Truth Be Told: A Jane Ryland Novel

    Written by Hank Phillippi Ryan

    Narrated by Xe Sands

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Truth Be Told, part of the bestselling Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series by Agatha, Anthony, Mary Higgins Clark, and Macavity Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan, begins with tragedy: a middle-class family evicted from their suburban home. In digging up the facts on this heartbreaking story—and on other foreclosures— reporter Ryland soon learns the truth behind a big-bucks scheme and the surprising players who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret. Turns out, there's more than one way to rob a bank.

    Boston police detective Jake Brogan has a liar on his hands. A man has just confessed to the famous twenty-year-old Lilac Sunday killing, and while Jake's colleagues take him at his word, Jake is not so sure. But he has personal reasons for hoping they've finally solved the cold case.

    Financial manipulation, the terror of foreclosures, the power of numbers, the primal need for home and family and love. What happens when what you believe is true turns out to be a lie?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781427243881
    Truth Be Told: A Jane Ryland Novel
    Author

    Hank Phillippi Ryan

    USA Today bestselling author HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN has won five Agatha Awards in addition to Anthony, Macavity, Daphne du Maurier, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. As on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, she's won 37 Emmys and many more journalism honors, and her work has resulted in new laws, criminals sent to prison, homes saved from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in restitution for victims and consumers. A past president of National Sisters in Crime and founder of MWA University, her novels include Trust Me, The Murder List, the Charlotte McNally series (starting with Prime Time), and the Jane Ryland series (which begins with The Other Woman). Ryan lives in Boston with her husband.

    More audiobooks from Hank Phillippi Ryan

    Related to Truth Be Told

    Titles in the series (5)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    Suspense For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      TV Pieces Of Her

      Mar 24, 2022

      TV Pieces Of Her
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Night Swim

      Jul 30, 2020

      Rachel, a true crime podcaster, is following a rape trial playing out in a small, ocean-side town. A young star swimmer has been accused of brutally assaulting the local police chief’s granddaughter and the case has quickly divided locals. But the da

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Minders

      Oct 7, 2020

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 448 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author John Marrs Publisher Del Rey John Marrs’s latest near future, high-concept techno-thriller isn’t so much a sequel to The One (DNA dating app has dark secret) and Passengers (autonomous ca

      1 min read

    • Article

      Hear A Ticking Time Bomb

      Mar 15, 2020

      The five years that have passed since the hostage crisis at the Lindt Cafe in central Sydney are enough to clear this competent if not outstanding thriller of any charge of being exploitative. The author – a former family-law and criminal barrister i

      1 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Jul 12, 2023

      Great Read
      7 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Feb 1, 2023

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Feb 2, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Dirty John: Terra

      Oct 9, 2017

      Dirty John: Terra
      9 min read

    • Article

      Dirty John: Terra

      Oct 9, 2017

      Dirty John: Terra
      9 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Nov 9, 2023

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Chronicles of NOELLA BRAY

      Mar 11, 2022

      Chronicles of NOELLA BRAY
      4 min read

    • Article

      Fabulous Fiction

      Mar 13, 2020

      Fabulous Fiction
      3 min read

    • Article

      Dialogue With The Devil

      Apr 10, 2023

      Dialogue With The Devil
      11 min read

    • Article

      Frances Wilson

      Oct 20, 2021

      Frances Wilson
      3 min read

    • Article

      Dialogue With The Devil

      Apr 10, 2023

      Dialogue With The Devil
      11 min read

    • Article

      TV Reviews

      May 24, 2022

      TV Reviews
      4 min read

    • Article

      Shaken, Not Stirred

      Dec 19, 2023

      Ava Glass, 50 Clambering down the hill, I tried not to trip as my kitten heels got wedged in the mud. Detectives crowded beside the river bank where a bloated body was being pulled out, arms jutting out as though waiting for a hug. River weeds hung f

      3 min read

    • Article

      LeTteR Bocks

      Aug 4, 2022

      ◻PLEASE find attached this trademark from a box of eggs, which appears to show a chicken lifting its leg to crack off an eggy one. Susan Butcher, Australia ◻FORMER Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been criticised for meeting an ex-KGB agent without h

      13 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      May 25, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Truth Be Told

    4/5

    28 ratings4 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      This novel, by Hank Philllippi Ryan, reveals a structure that borrows from the tv series' multi-vignette short scenes and flashbacks style. The structure makes a pastiche of the story, rather than a fluid onward moving account of reportage. Jane's leads for her multimedia reportage are just not meaty enough to carry forward these crime scenes and court scenes. It has a lot of suspense, especially regarding the future of an embroiled character named Lizzy McDivitt, but oddly - the male detective seems like a more sympathetic character than the woman reporter who is under the thumb of her editors. Read it to find out how the parole system in Boston was fraught with problems but not to figure out the real estate debacle. After all, who will ever figure out the mortgage banking?
    • 4/5
      Listened for Fun (Audible)Overall Rating: 3.50Story Rating: 3.50Character Rating: 3.50Audio Rating: 4.00 (not part of the overall rating)Read It File It (short review): Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan was my first book by the author but it won't be my last. I LOVED the case. This was a solid 4 or 4.5 on the mystery/thriller part. The relationship drama got on my nerves but that might have been due to me jumping in book 3. Overall, this was really enjoyable.Audio Thoughts: Narrated By Xe Sands / Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins Xe Sands did a wonderful job with all the characters in Truth Be Told. I am quite impressed at how well she pulled off the several male voices (they were unique, appropriate for age, and not girly). She was dead-on for all the women characters. Loved the newspaper lady! I would listen to her narrate this series again!
    • 4/5
      The third in Ryan's Jane-and-Jake series, this one starts out a little disjointed as she begins numerous threads. However, things come together nicely as the story progresses. Jane is now working on the online edition of the newspaper, with a demanding boss who is briefly but nicely drawn. Jake is investigating the confession of a man who claims to have committed a twenty-year-old unsolved murder. Their paths converge repeatedly, along with an attorney who might be involved in several cases that both protagonists keep bumping into. At times it reads as a comedy of errors, but Ryan ratchets up the tension in the last quarter of the book. I'm enjoying this series but wish that things between Jane and Jake would progress a little.
    • 5/5
      The story of “Truth Be Told” opens with reporter Jane Ryland looking into the heartbreaking displacement of families who have lost their homes to the bank in foreclosures. Meant to focus on the housing crisis, the story quickly evolves into something much more sinister as bodies begin turning up in supposedly-empty houses. What is the truth lurking in the shadows of these foreclosed homes . . . and why are people dying there? At the same time, Jake Brogan has his hands full trying to determine the truth behind a man’s unexpected confession to the brutal twenty-year-old murder of Carley Marie Schaefer --- the one case Jake’s police commissioner grandfather was never able to solve. Now, so many years later, someone has come forward and confessed, but is he really the infamous Lilac Sunday killer, or is it all a well-crafted lie?Displaced families and murders old and new keep the detective and the reporter on the go but as they try to connect with each other, Jake and Jane find their relationship might just be a bit more precarious than either of them had thought. But what they think they know may not be the truth at all . . . . Next in the Jane Ryland/Jake Brogan series, “Truth Be Told” weaves enough plot twists and surprises into its pages that it is impossible to lay this book aside. Suspense and excitement weave a tangled web that grabs the reader from the very first page . . . and you’ll be perched on the edge of your chair until the very last page is turned.Highly recommended.