Author: Amy Tintera
Year published: 2024
Category: Adult fiction (mystery/thriller)
Pages: 352 pages
Rating: 4 out of 5
Location: (my 2024 Google Reading map): USA (TX)
Summary: What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter?
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast "Listen for the Lie," and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.
The truth is out there, if we just listen.
Review: This book was a good and I laughed out loud in places. In a thriller. Love that combination. The grandmother character in particular is fun and smart.
This is a good thriller, one in which I didn't know who "did it" until the author revealed it. And she did a great job of making it seem like any number of the other characters could have committed the murder.
I also liked the format of the book. The narrator is Lucy so we're getting her perspective of events both past and present. She owns up to her terrible and questionable choices, her lack of memory of the events, and how all of this is affecting her. The other chapters are the podcast transcripts. This is how the author shows us the rest of the story. We learn how the townspeople, Lucy's family and friends remember the events and fell about things now. Important tidbits are revealed in the podcast, sometimes red herrings and sometimes truth. It's hard to ferret out the lies (hence the name of the podcast and the book).
Challenges for which this counts: none
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