Bury The Truth by Jane Phillips
Ben Burton was a military intelligence officer in Northern Ireland. His career ended in chaos when a car bomb was driven into the barracks, killing his wife and leaving him seriously injured. Since then, he has raised his two daughters alone and successfully run the family undertaking firm in Cambridge while battling PTSD.
June 2012
Stanley Murdock’s corpse arrives in Ben’s mortuary – and everything changes. For Ben, it is imperative that he finds Stanley’s killer before anyone else does. His sanity depends on it.
Stanley had a secret life and many enemies. Even his own children hated him – but was it enough to kill him?
Reviews for Bury The Truth
“Charming and more-ish. Enough eccentrics and nasty enough baddies to counteract the wholesomeness of the protagonist. Lots of silences and secrets and clearly more to come. Found myself genuinely cringing in anticipation of what indiscretions the impetuous teenage daughter would let out of the bag.
I always like to read fiction set in places I know, and I enjoyed the details in the setting of this book. Made me want to go to all the places I haven’t been since lockdown. And have a half of Justinian. But the Cambridge setting is more than skin deep, with the town/gown tension nicely evoked.
When’s the next one out??” – 5 Star Review from S. Douglas, on Amazon 6 November 2022
“Poignant and insightful. Beautifully evoking the university city of Cambridge. Bury the Truth is a who-done-it, a family saga, and the beginning of a crime trilogy, all rolled into one.” – 5 Star Review from JoeDoeBooks, on Amazon 12 November 2022
Jane Phillips on Bury The Truth
Babies only take nine months – Bury The Truth has taken six years to produce. After an overlong gestation, it has finally arrived!
If you like it, please tell everyone you have ever known (or just your friends) that it is worth reading. I want lots of people to read and enjoy it, so I have kept it as cheap as I can within Amazon limits.
Bury The Lies one of this book’s later siblings is also on Amazon. Bury The Pain and Bury The past will follow shortly.