At the close of a long day Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath a young woman lies dead. Villanis job as the head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood & sorrow. Incapable of constancy as a father & husband damaged as a son his life is his work. It is his identity his calling his touchstone. Now over a few sweltering summer days as fires burn across the state & his superiors & colleagues scheme & jostle his soul is about to be laid bare. Truth is a novel about a man a family a city. It is about violence murder love corruption honour & deceit. & it is about truth.