When Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish Teenager, is discovered having signs of afterbirth, all fingers point her way. Katie claims innocence, but is she doing so only to protect and keep her faith?
City Attorney Ellie Hathaway has had it with her fast-paced life and dead-end relationship. She escapes to the quiet comforts of Paradise, Pennsylvania, a place where she spent her childhood, hoping to find the answers she needs. However, instead of landing in a picture perfect setting in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, she lands right in the middle of the three-ring circus of a baby's mysterious death, a quiet town ablaze with uproar and a murder trial.
Many times, Ellie regrets taking on the headstrong Katie Fisher as a client, but as she delves deeper into the truth surrounding the mystery, she learns that the Amish have not only taught her how to harvest corn, but to harvest her heart, as well. PLAIN TRUTH is a captivating exploration into the "truths" held by many people, one which will certainly inspire the reader to uncover truths in themselves. Once again, Jodi Picoult gets down on her knees and grabs the soil in her bare hands, giving us a true picture of the Amish heritage and what it stands for.
Jodi Picoult's capable and deliberate hands slowly unravel the thread that holds patchwork quilt of characters together, allowing us to view their seams and all their imperfections. She continues to stretch the fascinating strand of thread from the Amish farm into a Pennsyvlania courtroom, where she orchestrates a fascinating conclusion of the murder trial.
Was the death natural or premeditated murder? Jodi Picoult keeps us gripping the book and guessing until the last page.
Writers Moon reViews (WritersMoon@aol.com) P.O. Box 182, Nesconset, NY 11767-0182 Copyright (c) 2000 Lynne Remick (LynnRemick@aol.com) Reprinted with permission from Lynne Remick =============================================
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