A Truth to Lie For

Elena Standish, Book 4

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe—unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler's clutches—in this action-packed mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry.

It is summer 1934, and Hitler is teetering on the edge of supreme power. Any small step forward could vault him toward European domination. When Britain's MI6 gets word that a German scientist has made a breakthrough in germ warfare, they send Elena Standish on a dangerous mission to get him out of Germany before he's forced to share his knowledge and its devastating power with Hitler's elite.

But the British soon learn that it's more than just time that Elena is working against. The new head of Germany's germ warfare division is an old enemy of Elena's grandfather Lucas, the former head of MI6. And he's bent on using any means to avenge his defeat at Lucas's hands twenty years before.

What starts as an effort to save Europe from the devastation of disease soon becomes an intensely personal fight. With Elena's every decision challenged, this compelling mystery takes a searing look at what it means to do what's right in a world rife with so much evil.

©2022 Anne Perry (P)2022 Recorded Books

Anne Perry never misses!

it took me a few chapters to engage in the story., but the narration is so excellent and the plot so complex I found I couldn't turn it off.

Superb!

A riveting novel of moral and physical courage during Hitler’s dreadful rise prior to the onset of WWII. I can’t help reflecting on the likelihood that Anne Perry’s genius derives in part from having learned from the painful consequences of a terrible decision she made during her adolescence. I admire her own moral courage after enduring the consequences of that act, to rise out of that dark period and create superb novels of spiritual and psychological depth and breadth.

I'm ready for #5! Get working on it, Anne.

So far every Anne Perry book I have read, I have loved! Keep up the great work!

Excellent

This has been such a great series, although with that goes the tenseness of the time and the horrors. It has made me go down several rabbit holes to look up the massacre of the BrownCoats which is a true occurrence called the "Knight of the Long Knives". It is truly horrifying to see how paranoid Hitler was- we know he was truly insane and power hungry.

Too wordy

It needed an editor. Too f often repeated the same phrases & ideas. I like the characters. It just needed to be a little tighter. As with her other books in this series, the ending is a little abrupt.