Out Review: Erin McCabe returns in Robyn Gigl’s “Nothing But The Truth”

Robyn Gigl’s summer 2024 release Nothing But the Truth is the latest in a growing series of legal mysteries set in the bosom of the Garden State. Gigl’s heroine is Erin McCabe, a lawyer in private practice whose clients gravitate toward her gravitas.

Erin McCabe will do what’s right, and sometimes that has a very personal cost.

If you’ve followed Ms. McCabe from Gigl’s first book By Way of Sorrow, then you have followed the very real lives of her and her law partner, family, and friends. Each character in the series has struggled. And each has had issues to deal with from the time Erin transitions from Ian to the woman she always knew she was inside.

How that affects her career, personal life, and life in the public eye is an education for those within the LGBTQ community as well as our allies. The beauty of Gigl’s writing is that you can start with any of her books. You will know the characters from the jump. And you will be hungry for the others in the series.

Each book is a mini-master class in working within a system to assure justice really is for all.

At its core, Nothing But the Truth depicts the struggle to live a fully authentic life while everything around you pushes back with all its might. Within the ranks of law enforcement, government, and beyond are forces who either believe laws apply only to you and me and not those who enforce them, or that might makes right.

Erin McCabe is a clever, thoroughly modern wonder woman who is as real as any of us. That’s inspiring for us to believe in the justice system and demand what is ours. McCabe’s superpower is her determination that justice will be done. While defending a state trooper accused of a heinous crime, she is in danger. She is also endangered for daring to live her true love and life and this makes it a page turner.

Fans of cozy mysteries will love Gigl’s use of familiar towns and locales. You can walk the same streets Erin McCabe does, go to her coffee shop and feel the interior of the judges’ chambers and courtrooms where she works.

It doesn’t get more real, from wherever you are reading. Give yourself a slice of life and find out whether McCabe prevails in Nothing But the Truth.

Nothing But the Truth by Robyn Gigl ©2024, Kensington Publishing