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Two Truths and a Lie
Two Truths and a Lie: A Private Investigation | Ellen McGarrahan
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"In 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the Miami Herald when she covered the execution of Jesse Tafero, a man convicted of murdering two police officers. When it later emerged that Tafero may not have committed the murders, McGarrahan became haunted by that grisly execution--and appalled by her unquestioning acceptance of the state's version of events. Decades later, in the midst of her successful career as a private investigator, McGarrahan finally decides to find out the truth of what really happened. Her investigation takes her back to Florida, where she combs through court files and interviews everyone involved in the case, in. She plunges back into the Miami of the 1960s and 1970s, where gangsters and kingpins and beautiful women inhabit a dangerous world of nightclubs, speed boats, and drug cartels. Violence is everywhere. The murdered police officers, she discovers, are only one part of the picture. But even as McGarrahan circles closer to the truth, the story of guilt and innocence becomes more complex. She gradually discovers that she hasn't been alone in her search for closure, because whenever a human life is forcibly taken--by bullet, or by electric chair--the reckoning is long and difficult. Both a gripping true-crime narrative and a fascinating glimpse into the life of a private investigator, Two Truths and a Lie is ultimately a profound meditation on grief and complicity"--
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Ellen McGarrahan witnessed an execution that didn‘t go as planned and could never quite move past it, especially when rumors of the man‘s innocence started up. Later, as a PI, she investigates to find out what really happened and takes us along. This is a fascinating story and caused me to think a great deal about truth and whether or not we can ever really know it.

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Sumi
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This book was intense & very good. Still a little bit stressed from it! Shortly after the author started working as a reporter she witnessed an execution. That would have been disturbing enough but this one was bitched & then she started hearing that the man may have been innocent. The book is the story of her search to find the truth if the crime.

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This is part true crime book and part memoir, the author's whole life changed the days she witnessed Tafero die. While we follow her investigation, we also get a glimpse on what changed in her life for the better and the worse. Her reactions are very real and I feel her honesty on the page. While she gives heaps of information on the case and the many players in this story. I did not get bogged down with the all the info. It was a good book.

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