Fatal Truth

by Robin Burcell

A homicide inspector with the San Francisco Police Department, Kate Gillespie worked hard to get where she is. But a frantic phone call from a snitch threatens to destroy everything she is and everything she's earned. Pulled from the bright lights of the Homicide office onto the shadowy night streets, she arrives at a clandestine meet just in time to see the frightened informer shot dead ... by another cop. Now Kate is a target, on a trail of dirty...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061061239
• ISBN13: 9780061061233
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A Solid Hit!

This is book 2 in the Inspector Kate Gillespie series, and this book is great! The character's are complex, the mystery has more dips and loops than a rollar coaster, and the scenery is fabulous! (Well maybe I am a bit partial- they visit my town ;0). Sexy IA Investigator Torrance is back heating up the pages, and leaving us wishing for more. In this book Kate finds herself in the middle of corruption in the department (and higher?). She doesn't know which of her fellow officer's she can trust, and which are out to make her a silent witness. Who is on her side? Who is being framed? Who sold out on his badge? At least she can trust Torrance.... or can she?A fast, enjoyable read, Robin Burcell scores a hit here. She writes from knowledge, as a cop and a woman, and gives us a female star we could all be proud of!

Truth is - its great!

If you like suspenseful detective stories you can't go wrong with this book. Robin Burcell spins a fascinating story of corruption within the San francisco Police Department and its effect upon the lives relationships of those police officers who chose to expose it. However, it is the characters that stand out in this series. Kate Gillespie is a wonderful protagonist about whom I hope to read more in the future.

A Fast-paced read

...Robin Burcell is a criminal investigator in Northern California, has worked as a homicide detective, a patrol officer, a member of the hostage negotiating team and is an FBI trained forensic artist. It hardly seems fair that she can write too!One of the problems with authors like Robin Burcell, Linda Fairstein, Paul Bishop, is that most reviews stress their authenticity. Well, of course they are authentic, these writers write about the work they do themselves.What should be stressed is not only that these writers write authentic stuff, they do it extremely well!Fatal Truth is the second in the Kate Gillespie series. The first was Every Move She Makes, another terrific book. Kate is a Homicide Inspector with the San Francisco Police Department. Just like Nash Bridges, except Kate plays by the rules. In Fatal Truth, Kate witnesses a homicide that involves an informant she is working with, and a cop she knows. Quite soon, she finds herself the target of someone who is setting her up to take the blame for the murder. Who is trying to discredit her? Whom can she trust? And where does the enigmatic but very attractive Lieutenant Mike Torrance fit in.Robin Burcell writes a fast-paced, intriguing story with surprises around every corner, including a connection to the past death of a family member. I didn't have to read any parts with my eyes closed but there's pleny of action going on. This novel will definitely show up on my ten favorites of the year....

enjoyable police procedural

Kate Gillespie is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco police department. Her brother worked in the same department, but a dozen years ago while an Internal Affairs investigation was going on into his activities when he died of an overdose. Now Kate works very hard to make up for her brother's mistakes. When a snitch calls her to set up a meeting, she goes to the meeting point only to find her mark gunned down in cold blood by another police officer.She calls the one officer she trusts, police officer Mike Torrance. They meet at a local cop bar when they find out that the officer who killed Kate's snitch is now dead, the victim of a hit and run. Kate is assigned to investigate the officer's death and it doesn't take her long to learn there are other officers that are dirty and this case ties back to her brother's suicide.Fans of police procedurals and crime thrillers will definitely enjoy reading FATAL DEATH. The heroine is a person who obeys the rules except when the lives of her family are at stake, a situation that immediately endears her to the audience. Robin Burcell, a police officer herself, shows the gritty work involved in policing a big city.Harriet Klausner

Exciting Police Procedural

Robin Burcell, herself a police officer, has written another excellent police procedural novel featuring San Francisco Homicide Investigator Kate Gillespie. "Fatal Truth" has a fine cast of characters and a plot that grabs you from page one. The death of a police officer leads Kate to investigate possible police involvement in drug dealing, which also may be connected to the suspicious death of her brother 12 years before. She soon finds herself being set up for the police officer's murder. Aided by her former partner and by the Internal Affairs investigator she is drawn to, Kate doggedly pursues the clues that lead to some slam-bang confrontations and a resolution that is both professionally and personally satisfiying. A great follow-up to "Every Move She Makes."