I cannot stop recommending this audiobook to people! It is twisty and dark and funny and surprising. I’m not sure if it would work in original book form, because the neat device about this book is that it’s a book, but also a podcast. I know, wait what? But it works so well!
Five years ago Lucy’s best friend Savvy was murdered. Lucy was found covered in her blood, with no memory of what happened of the event. Everyone in her small town was quick to draw the conclusion that she was the murderer. Present day, Lucy is living in Los Angeles, writing romance novels under a psydeonym and trying to leave the past in the past, until Ben Owens uses season two of his extremely popular Listen for the Lie true crime podcast to investigate this unsolved mystery.
The book alternates chapters, from either the POV of Lucy, with a female narrator or, an actual recorded episode of the podcast, with a male narrator in the role of Ben. It is SUCH a creative way to tell a story. Ben’s podcast stays firmly in the present, but we are deep in Lucy’s mind as she returns to her small town to face and maybe find the skeletons in her own closet. She’s a clever, funny and brash personality, even seeming to be a disturbed but did she do it? Well, as the epiotomous podcast says, you need to listen for the lie and see if you can untangle it. I for one, could not, and was kept on the end of my seat the entire time.