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The Plain Truth

Jodi Picoult

2000405 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2000
first published
  • 2000Pocket Books · 405 pages · ENGISBN 9780671776121
  • 2000Pocket Books · 405 pages · ENGISBN 9781416547815
  • 2001Washington Square pressISBN 9780671776138
  • 2004Atria · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780743275019
  • 2006Recorded Books · ENGISBN 9781419389429
  • 2004Flame · 480 pagesISBN 9780340835470
  • 2004Hodder & Stoughton Ltd · 416 pagesISBN 9780340836569

From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide -- and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep inside the world of those who live "plain," Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within -- to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past reenters her life.

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