Audiobook Review: Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

Adult, Mystery, Thriller

eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 352 pages

March 5, 2024 by Celadon Books

Blurb

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.

My Review:

When a book is called by multiple reviewers, bookstagrammers, and booktokers the “best thriller of the year” you know I had to check it out.

I got the audiobook, narrated by January LaVoy (my favorite audiobook narrator) and Will Damron.

I immediately got pulled into the story which goes back and forth between present-day Lucy, 5 years ago Lucy, and clips from Ben Owens’s podcast Listen for the Lie.

Lucy is sarcastic, which I loved. She’s been so dogged down by everyone (including herself) believing that she killed her best friend that she’s a little rough around the edges and doesn’t trust easily.

Then there is Ben. Charismatic, attractive – Lucy should steer clear of him and yet they form a tenuous friendship which blooms into more. But what will happen when it’s time for the podcast to end? Will Ben say Lucy is guilty? Or will her buried memories of that night five years ago remind her what really happened and who killed Savvy?

Add in a meddling grandmother and I’m sold.

I devoured this book and it’s definitely in the top three of the thrillers I’ve read so far this year.

My Rating:

5 of 5 Knives!