{"id":5439,"date":"2025-07-16T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:18","slug":"book-talk-j-p-delaney-believe-me-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-j-p-delaney-believe-me-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: J.P. Delaney, \u2018Believe Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5439\" class=\"elementor elementor-5439\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10c4fcce e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"10c4fcce\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24cf3584 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"24cf3584\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>J.P. Delaney, a pseudonym for Tony Strong, is a seasoned writer of mystery fiction whose \u201cThe Girl Before\u201d has been made into a major TV series by Ron Howard. \u201cBelieve Me\u201d was written prior to his bestseller, but it didn\u2019t do well on the market. So, Delaney rewrote it and published it 2018 (354 pages in paperback). In my opinion, the current \u201cBelieve Me\u201d is the better of the two novels.<\/p><p>In this story, Delaney uses a literary device known as an \u201cunreliable narrator\u201d in the person of Claire Wright. Claire was a British actress whose career tanked in her homeland, so she came to the United States with hopes of getting a new start. However, she lacks a green card, so she\u2019s ineligible for legitimate stage work. <\/p><p>Desperate for employment in a field that is at least somewhat related to her acting career, she takes a job working for a divorce attorney. Her job is to act like a prostitute and lure unfaithful husbands into a potentially lurid relationship. However, the lawyer only needs to establish the intention of the husband, and Claire doesn\u2019t actually perform any untoward services.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.P. Delaney, a pseudonym for Tony Strong, is a seasoned writer of mystery fiction whose \u201cThe Girl Before\u201d has been made into a major TV series by Ron Howard. \u201cBelieve Me\u201d was written prior to his bestseller, but it didn\u2019t do well on the market. So, Delaney rewrote it and published it 2018 (354 pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}