Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator.. - Ellen McGarrahan

Category: Adults, History, True Crime
Language: English
Keywords: Guilty Or Innocent The Tafero Case

Written by Ellen McGarrahan
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: March 2, 2021
Duration: 13:03:09

Ellen McGarrahan was a young journalist for The Miami Herald in 1990 when she witnessed the botched execution of convicted killer Jesse Tafero: flames and smoke and three jolts of the electric chair. When evidence later emerged casting doubt on Tafero’s guilt, McGarrahan found herself haunted by his fiery death. Had she witnessed the execution of an innocent man?

Decades later, McGarrahan, now a successful private investigator, is still gripped by the mystery and infamy of the Tafero case, and decides she must investigate it herself. Her quest will take her around the world and deep into the harrowing heart of obsession, and as questions of guilt and innocence become more complex, McGarrahan discovers she is not alone in her need for closure. For whenever a human life is taken by violence, the reckoning is long and difficult for all.

A rare and vivid account of a private investigator’s real life and a classic true-crime tale, Two Truths and a Lie is ultimately a profound meditation on truth, grief, complicity, and justice.

VERDICT Dark, foreboding, and emotional, this title is as gripping as a thriller and laced with cogent insights–McGarrahan stresses that sometimes there isn’t an objective truth to uncover.—Library Journal