WHOLE TRUTH, THE - Hachette

Ted Bundy. Hannibal Lecter. Florida killer Raymond Raintree has been compared to the most notorious of monsters, be they real or imagined. But the crime Raintree stands trial for - the brutal murder of Natalie Mae McCullen - is all too real. For gutsy true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot, a reluctant celebrity in her own right, the case is the stuff of her next sure-free bestseller.But some of the evidence has made Marie wonder...and she is lured to retrace the dark night on a lonely waterway where Natalie disappeared. The deeper the steely-nerved writer digs, the more she must face the dark recesses of her own past - and the bottomless darkness inside a killer's heart of pure evil...