The Whole Truth - Hardcover

Robinson, A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556112025 ISBN 13: 9781556112027

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1990

Synopsis

Wanting out of his thirty-year marriage, industrialist Leonard Bradley fantasizes about his wife's disappearance when she will not consent to divorce, a fantasy that comes horribly true and that prompts painful courtroom revelations

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

When he falls in love with another woman, wealthy Leonard Bradley, an industrialist in upstate New York, asks his wife Phyllis for a divorce. When Phyllis refuses, Leonard, contemplating a long, painful legal battle and a large settlement, grows resentful, and begins to fantasize her providential disappearance. In a bizarre twist, she does just that--vanishes--her body found in the woods several days later, raped, sodomized and shot. All the evidence (and Phyllis's $2 million life insurance policy) points to Leonard. In a desperate attempt to clear his name, he decides to tell the whole truth: to confess that in his heart he had wished Phyllis dead. His neglected and heretofore embittered children rally around him, while on the other side of town, a lurid melodrama involving a policeman, an abused wife and her truck-driver husband reveals to the reader the true circumstances of the murder. Though the plot is potentially suspenseful, Robinson's ( Home Again, Home Again ) clumsily constructed novel, with its stilted dialogue, dull characterizations and graceless prose, makes a bland and unappealing read.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Overwhelming circumstantial evidence is likely to convict wealthy businessman Leonard Bradley in the murder/rape of his recently estranged wife unless his lawyer or son can locate a contrary clue. Beginning with courtroom pyrotechnics, the plot backtracks for explanations, complications, and diversions. While the reader knows from the onset that Bradley will walk, the author ( A Departure from the Rules ) refrains from letting the "unknown" culprit loose until jury deliberation. Sex, violence, troubled consciences, and a few touching moments supplement the picturesque (if a trifle overdone) courtroom scenes.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1556112025
• ISBN 13: 9781556112027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316