Monday, June 10, 2024

The Confession by Robert Whitlow (Review)

Genre: Legal Fiction 
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Released: August 5, 2014
416 pages
About the Book:

Confession is good for the soul, but it could mean death to an ambitious young lawyer.

Assistant DA Holt Douglas has made a career of getting confessions from criminals. With a confession in hand, he knows a guilty plea is soon to follow.

In the midst of professional success, Holt is haunted by a secret—a lie he buried in the grave of his best friend. Holt’s crime is hidden from all eyes—family, friends, police, and his soon-to-be fiancĂ©.

But the truth has a way of coming back to life.

With obsessive prosecutorial zeal, Holt reopens a cold case involving the death of the town’s wealthiest citizen. The man’s death was ruled a suicide, but Holt suspects murder. Facing fierce opposition, he is determined to expose the killer. Holt slowly begins to unravel the facts.

And comes face-to-face with his own guilty conscience.

With his job, his relationship with the woman he loves, and his future at risk, Holt skirts the boundary between truth and lies, confession and hypocrisy, redemption and ruin. Can he survive long enough to finally make the right choice?


My Rating & Thoughts:    ⭐⭐


The prologue hooked me, and let us know what secret Holt is keeping. Then it jumps in time, and Holt is now the assistant DA in a small town. Even though I knew what his secret was I liked him and enjoyed following his day to day life. A cold case comes across Holt's desk and something about it bothers him, so he begins digging to find out more details. This reveals secrets that have been kept hidden, but what's the right way to deal with it? I enjoyed how Bishop Pennington befriended Holt even though he didn't attend his church. He provided Holt a listening ear and pointed him to God. I wasn't a fan of Trish's character, she had a crush on Holt even though she was a Christian and he wasn't, and she was also seeing someone. The fact that Holt shared his secret to someone who was practically a stranger felt unrealistic. Holt's secret is revealed but the question is how will it affect the life he had made and how will he respond? The focus of the story is forgiveness. There isn't a ton of action in this one it seemed more like regular life. I thought I knew where it was going to go relationship wise but I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't and prefer the way it went.

(I purchased my copy of this book; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

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