JODI PICOULT - PLAIN TRUTH

Synopsis

Moving seamlessly from psychological drama to courtroom suspense, Plain Truth is a fascinating portrait of Amish life rarely witnessed by those outside the faith. When a young Amish teen hides a pregnancy, gives birth in secret, and then flatly denies it all when the baby's body is found, urban defense attorney Ellie Hathaway decides to defend her. But she finds herself caught in a clash of cultures with a people whose channels of justice are markedly different from her own… and discovers a place where circumstances are not always what they seem.

What others are saying about Plain Truth …

A featured selection of the Literary Guild.

"A Witness-meets-Agnes of God courtroom thriller… both absorbing and affecting."

—Entertainment Weekly

"Appealing, suspenseful… Reads like a cross between the Harrison Ford movie Witness and Scott Turow's novel Presumed Innocent, with a dose of television's The Practice thrown in to spice up the legal dilemmas."

—Arizona Republic

"Enter attorney Ellie Hathaway —a woman with her own emotional scars—who finds herself defending Katie on the charge of first degree murder, living on an Amish dairy farm, and discovering truths about herself as well as her client."