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Mike & Riel #2
Truth and Lies
Mike's lies are spinning out of control and now he's the prime suspect in a murder. He can't explain his bruised and skinned knuckles, and he can't explain why he was seen near the park where Robbie was killed. But he insists he's not a murderer. Still, if Mike really is innocent, why doesn't his alibi check out, and why are the police so sure that he's guilty?
208 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2014
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About the author
Norah McClintock
91 books208 followersNorah McClintock’s fascinating mysteries are hard to put down. Her Chloe & Levesque series, Mike & Riel series, and Robyn Hunter series, all published by Scholastic Canada, have been popular with readers in many countries. Norah has also written several crime novels for reluctant readers in the Orca Soundings series from Orca Book Publishers,
Norah is a five-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Novel. Read Mistaken Identity, The Body in the Basement, Sins of the Father, Scared to Death, and Break and Enter to find out why! Norah's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and she has won numerous awards.
Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award - Juvenile
o 1996 – Mistaken Identity – Winner
o 1998 – The Body in the Basement – Winner
o 1999 – Sins of the Father – Winner
o 2002 – Scared to Death – Winner
o 2003 – Break and Enter – Winner
Red Maple Award
o 2004 – Hit and Run – Winner
Norah is a five-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Novel. Read Mistaken Identity, The Body in the Basement, Sins of the Father, Scared to Death, and Break and Enter to find out why! Norah's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and she has won numerous awards.
Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award - Juvenile
o 1996 – Mistaken Identity – Winner
o 1998 – The Body in the Basement – Winner
o 1999 – Sins of the Father – Winner
o 2002 – Scared to Death – Winner
o 2003 – Break and Enter – Winner
Red Maple Award
o 2004 – Hit and Run – Winner
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April 23, 2023
4.0 Stars
I enjoyed this sequel which was nearly as good as the first book. I liked the perspective with a protagonist who purposely withheld information from the reader.
I enjoyed this sequel which was nearly as good as the first book. I liked the perspective with a protagonist who purposely withheld information from the reader.
January 11, 2019
If a murder happened near you, the last thing u would want to happen is get linked to the crime and have to prove that you were innocent. Truth and Lies is a book about A high school boy Mike and his adopted Ex-Police officer, Riel. Mike became linked the murder of a boy named Robbe Ducharme, and now he has to prove whether he is innocent or guilty of murder.
Mike comes from a rough background, His single mother passed away and his uncle died and was unable to take care of him. Mike was then Adopted by a Ex-cop named Riel, who became a teacher. Early on, news comes around that a boy in Mike’s class named Robbe Ducharme was murdered at a park near his house. Unfortunately, Mike was supposedly out for a walk near the park on the night that it happened. Mike never saw any of the murderers, but the word got out that he was near the scene and possibly linked to the Murder.
From this point, Mike gets constantly interrogated by the police, desperate for knowledge about the crime. He ends up making partial lies, which ends up putting him deeper into investigation. I won’t spoil the outcome of whether or not Mike did the crime. The book also follows Mike’s life as a 15 year old boy, chasing love and trying to maintain friendships. This also brings out character development in Mike. An example is when Mike gets a job at a candy store and gets fired for being honest and truthful.
Overall, I enjoyed reading Truth and Lies, The story was engaging enough and the level of suspense was just right. I enjoyed that the author wrote about Mike’s everyday life, because I was able to relate to his thoughts and emotions. Other people might not enjoy the book because of its slower pace or because of less interesting parts of the book. Overall, I would rate this book a 3 out of 5.
Mike comes from a rough background, His single mother passed away and his uncle died and was unable to take care of him. Mike was then Adopted by a Ex-cop named Riel, who became a teacher. Early on, news comes around that a boy in Mike’s class named Robbe Ducharme was murdered at a park near his house. Unfortunately, Mike was supposedly out for a walk near the park on the night that it happened. Mike never saw any of the murderers, but the word got out that he was near the scene and possibly linked to the Murder.
From this point, Mike gets constantly interrogated by the police, desperate for knowledge about the crime. He ends up making partial lies, which ends up putting him deeper into investigation. I won’t spoil the outcome of whether or not Mike did the crime. The book also follows Mike’s life as a 15 year old boy, chasing love and trying to maintain friendships. This also brings out character development in Mike. An example is when Mike gets a job at a candy store and gets fired for being honest and truthful.
Overall, I enjoyed reading Truth and Lies, The story was engaging enough and the level of suspense was just right. I enjoyed that the author wrote about Mike’s everyday life, because I was able to relate to his thoughts and emotions. Other people might not enjoy the book because of its slower pace or because of less interesting parts of the book. Overall, I would rate this book a 3 out of 5.
September 29, 2022
the title of my book is truth and lies by Norah McClintock. the reason I liked this book is that it was a mystery. this is the second book in the series. the star rating is a 5/5 because it was a mystery. this book kind of reminds me of a life of a typical middle schooler. sometimes they tell the truth and sometimes they tell lies and the lies are bad ones. I also really like the author. in the book the main character told the truth when somebody says he killed somebody else.
April 16, 2019
Truth and lies was also as good as the first book
December 4, 2019
Mostly predictable, but still some compelling characters.
April 7, 2020
A great murder mystery, with 15-year-old Mike as the innocent (or is he?) man who's caught the interest of the police, and keeps getting caught in lies. Riveting!! Norah is the greatest!
April 25, 2025
3.75 ⭐ easy and breezy but I liked the first one a lot more
October 28, 2016
**SPOILER ALERT**
The genre of this book is mystery. When Mike says he is innocent, I doubted him until he actually proved that he was innocent. Mike has had a hard life ever since his mother and uncle died. He investigated his mother's crime. The case was still open but the cops didn't bother much. I got surprised when I found out who the murders were, so did Mike. They were actually the reason why Mike's uncle Billy died. They hung him because he had told him everything that happened and that's when Mike found out that Billy's friends were the killers.
When Mike came back to his house late at night, he was questioned why he was late, where he was and why he had bruised knuckles. While saying that he was just horsing around with a friend that day, later that week a few witnesses said that they saw him in the park the time Robbie Ducharme was killed. He says he's innocent but instead of telling the truth he tells lies and doesn't stop. He's scared that he will lose the trust of his foster father Riel. He knows he's in big trouble already, being the prime suspect of a murder. In the previous book, Mike's uncle had died. This guy, Robbie Ducharme, said that he wouldn't cry for someone who did what Mike's uncle did. Obviously this got Mike mad. Mike insists that he didn't kill him or beat him to death. All he did was push him to the ground. In fact, he didn't want to hurt him. This other girl named Cat saw that too. Instead of saying the truth, she said that she had seen Mike in the park with Robbie. She said that they fought. This got Mike into more trouble because he was saying different things from other people's statements.
Mike argued that he hadn't been with Robbie at all that day. Yeah, they passed each other in the halls but he claimed to never being with him that day. Mike gets called to go to the police station multiple times to answer more of the same questions. When he finally tells the truth he wonders if his foster father would still believe him. The first person point of view affects the story because it tells the reader how the character feels. The title relates to the story because the main character is telling both truths and lies and I think that's where the title comes from. The author builds tension/suspense by saying that Mike is saying things that the cops might not believe.
At first, I thought that Riel wouldn't trust him again. At the end of the book Riel said that he always believed him. I was kind of mad because Mike's "best friend" Vin, had helped Cat with the lie. The guilty ones were Cat, Vin and other of their friends. Mike knew he was innocent but he didn't know that it was Vin the whole time. This surprised me too because Vin acted all innocent and he said that they were "best friends".
From a scale of 1-5, I give this book a 4 because I like how the author wrote this story. Also, this book made me feel like if this actually happened in real life. I would recommend this book to people that like mysteries and suspense books. I say that if you ever get caught in lies like how this teen did, you should just tell the truth whether it hurts you or someone else.
The genre of this book is mystery. When Mike says he is innocent, I doubted him until he actually proved that he was innocent. Mike has had a hard life ever since his mother and uncle died. He investigated his mother's crime. The case was still open but the cops didn't bother much. I got surprised when I found out who the murders were, so did Mike. They were actually the reason why Mike's uncle Billy died. They hung him because he had told him everything that happened and that's when Mike found out that Billy's friends were the killers.
When Mike came back to his house late at night, he was questioned why he was late, where he was and why he had bruised knuckles. While saying that he was just horsing around with a friend that day, later that week a few witnesses said that they saw him in the park the time Robbie Ducharme was killed. He says he's innocent but instead of telling the truth he tells lies and doesn't stop. He's scared that he will lose the trust of his foster father Riel. He knows he's in big trouble already, being the prime suspect of a murder. In the previous book, Mike's uncle had died. This guy, Robbie Ducharme, said that he wouldn't cry for someone who did what Mike's uncle did. Obviously this got Mike mad. Mike insists that he didn't kill him or beat him to death. All he did was push him to the ground. In fact, he didn't want to hurt him. This other girl named Cat saw that too. Instead of saying the truth, she said that she had seen Mike in the park with Robbie. She said that they fought. This got Mike into more trouble because he was saying different things from other people's statements.
Mike argued that he hadn't been with Robbie at all that day. Yeah, they passed each other in the halls but he claimed to never being with him that day. Mike gets called to go to the police station multiple times to answer more of the same questions. When he finally tells the truth he wonders if his foster father would still believe him. The first person point of view affects the story because it tells the reader how the character feels. The title relates to the story because the main character is telling both truths and lies and I think that's where the title comes from. The author builds tension/suspense by saying that Mike is saying things that the cops might not believe.
At first, I thought that Riel wouldn't trust him again. At the end of the book Riel said that he always believed him. I was kind of mad because Mike's "best friend" Vin, had helped Cat with the lie. The guilty ones were Cat, Vin and other of their friends. Mike knew he was innocent but he didn't know that it was Vin the whole time. This surprised me too because Vin acted all innocent and he said that they were "best friends".
From a scale of 1-5, I give this book a 4 because I like how the author wrote this story. Also, this book made me feel like if this actually happened in real life. I would recommend this book to people that like mysteries and suspense books. I say that if you ever get caught in lies like how this teen did, you should just tell the truth whether it hurts you or someone else.
March 16, 2015
The relationship between Mike and Riel is tested in this second novel. Mike lies about going out one night and when a murder is reported the next day he continues to lie to Riel about leaving the house. When the police begin to suspect Mike had something to do with the murder of a fellow student Mike gets caught in more lies. Just when it looks like Mike will be blamed for the homicide he figures some things out and gets to the truth.
September 25, 2015
I loved the book. At the end Mike told the police the TRUTH about what happened to Robbie and how he was kidded to death. Robbie was kidded to death by Vin and his group of buddies and Cat (NOT MIKE). If anyone love mysteries you should read the book and the series too.
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May 2, 2016I like this book, but it wasn't my favorite out of this whole series. If you do read this book make sure you have an interest in crime and investagation. If you don't you will get lost in the book.
December 4, 2018
It was a short but very intresting and good book. some parts are boring though. i reccomend if you like murder mystery this is a book for you.
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December 9, 2020ik vond dit een leuk boek
het was soms ingewikkeld
het verhaal klopte niet echt
maar op het einde kwam het goed
het was soms ingewikkeld
het verhaal klopte niet echt
maar op het einde kwam het goed
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