{"id":21742,"date":"2026-03-02T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21742"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:27:06","slug":"the-truth-will-out-by-steve-higgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21742","title":{"rendered":"‘The Truth Will Out,’ by Steve Higgs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Steve Higgs\u2019s cold case trilogy<\/strong> featuring Inspector Tony Heaton concludes with The Truth Will Out<\/a><\/em>. The trilogy seems to have sold quite well, and it pleased a lot of readers. I myself didn\u2019t hate the books, but I was less than delighted with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To recap: Tony Heaton is a police detective in the English county of Kent, placidly approaching retirement in a fairly quiet part of the country. Then he is assigned to assist a hotshot young detective in examining old \u201ccold\u201d cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That ought to be fairly low-drama work, though it hasn\u2019t proven so in the previous two books, and it doesn\u2019t in this one. People involved in the crimes are still alive, and some of them will go to extremes to keep the dead past dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But more than that, Tony has his own secrets to protect. His partner is itching to look into a particular crime that Tony very much wants left alone. He\u2019s beginning to think he might have to kill the young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This reader has trouble sympathizing with a main character who\u2019s making that kind of plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the final resolution left me (personally) unsatisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But plenty of readers enjoyed it, so maybe I\u2019m tone-deaf. The suspense certainly ran high. Author Higgs writes pretty well, but there are occasional typos in the text. And he has an annoying problem with misplacing modifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no especially objectionable material in this trilogy that I recall. I recommend it moderately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Higgs\u2019s cold case trilogy featuring Inspector Tony Heaton concludes with The Truth Will Out. The trilogy seems to have sold quite well, and it pleased a lot of readers. I myself didn\u2019t hate the books, but I was less than delighted with them. To recap: Tony Heaton is a police detective in the English … Continue reading ‘The Truth Will Out,’ by Steve Higgs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[5861,5875,5862],"class_list":["post-21742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-steve-higgs","tag-the-truth-will-out","tag-tony-heaton"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21745,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21742\/revisions\/21745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}