3 Truths and a Lie

A Detective D. D. Warren Story

By: Lisa Gardner

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

In Lisa Gardner's second short story, after the New York Times bestseller The 7th Month, Detective D.D. Warren takes on her most intimidating assignment yet: a fifty-minute class meant to educate a horde of bloodthirsty thriller writers on the ways of actual police work. Yet sometimes life really does imitate fiction, as D.D. takes the writers through the reality of one of her most twisted cases - a case that involves a seedy motel room, drugs, prostitution...and a severed leg.

With Gardner's trademark suspense, sharp observations, and thrilling storytelling, 3 Truths and a Lie is a fascinating chapter in D.D.'s storied career.

©2016 Lisa Gardner, Inc. (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Boston Detective D. D. Warren lectures...

...crime novel authors at a conference. This one hour short story is about one of Warren's cases. She engages her audience to get their input on what she should have done next at each point in the case. Kirsten Potter does her normal great job of narration. The short story is free at Audible. The short story is followed by the first two chapters of Find Her, the D. D. Warren thriller to be released on Feb. 9, 2016.

Witty and Clever

Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren is asked to do a presentation to a group of thriller writers about police procedure. When she turns and faces the room, D. D. abandons her plan and decides to tell a story about a recent, bizarre case and ask the group to figure out the three truths and a lie.

I’m not a fan of novellas but this one was pretty clever. It’s too short for me to provide more details without spoiling it for other readers but what I can share is I was just as engaged as the group in that conference room and enjoyed how she singled out some of my favorite, real life authors. I attempted to guess the answers, too, and the narrator brought a level of wit that made this fun.

Interesting but maybe not worth it

The story was interesting as as always by Lisa Gardner, very well written. However, the length is only 1 hour and 20 minutes, the last 20 minutes are prologue to the next novel. So although it was very good, I don’t think I would pay as much as I did to listen had i known how short it would be.

liked it

Very good short story. Kept my interest and I like the tone of the narrator's voice.

Very interesting

I found this to be a very refreshing take on the murder/mystery genre. I am hoping there are more like this one as I would happily listen to more. The only thing that let me down was 'the lie'. Quite a let down after such a build up but didn't distract too much from the over all experience of the book. Great narration with a very easy listening voice.

Real-time mystery

Fun premise--a reluctant speaker at a crime writers seminar D.D. Warren challenges the audience to spot the lie in her summation of an investigation of a gruesome and puzzling murder. Naturally we're also trying to figure out what's true and what's not. We're usually doing that in detective novels anyway but this time we're overtly invited to play the game. Clever.

Seems like a number of reviewers disliked the narrator. I thought she was quite good. Miss DD is kind of a smart arse and the reader went with it.

It was good

Nice little story for when you are short on time. I enjoyed it, nice intro to the next book.

Good voice for the material. Too graphic for me.

I appreciate the story and the mystery it revealed. But the writing was more graphic than it needed to be, which really just disturbed me instead adding to the story.

Keeper and new author for me!

The narrator gives such great attitude to this detective. I totally love it!!! Very snappy dialogue, good pace. This is a keeper story for me and I'm getting more of this author!!

D.D. Warren in a neat little puzzle story

Boston Homicide Detective D.D. Warren faces a terrifying challenge--standing in front of an audience of thriller writers and educating them about the realities of police work for an entire fifty-minute class. They are ravenous. They are bloodthirsty. Most police work is relatively dull.

So D.D. reaches deep into her bag of tricks, and pulls out one of her twistiest cases. It features drugs, prostitution, a dead body, and a severed leg.

A severed leg packed in dry ice.

And security cameras show no one entering or leaving the motel room until the night manager checked and found the body, and vomited. And then called the police.

This is a short story, and Gardner keeps it moving fast, and builds the tension with surprising twists and well-used detail. It may help a bit to have some prior familiarity with the larger series, but it's not vital. What's key here is the puzzle, and it's very well-done.

Recommended.

I bought this audiobook.