A review by nigellicus
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense

5.0

Fast, slick, cool little mystery, the central tension being between whether the amnesiac protagonist actually wants to remember whether she murdered her best friend or not. Prompted by her grandmother to come back to her home town, where everybody thinks she did it, while a true crime podcast is doing an investigation into the case, we get some nice production on the audiobook as they replicate podcast episodes and you actually forget it's two narrators doing all the voices. It's a page-turner, helped along by short chapters, the dramatics generated by the podcast, twists and revelations, but with dark digressions into domestic abuse and very dodgy choices. Lucy is spiky, sarcastic and doesn't seem to like anyone, not even her boyfriend, with very few exceptions, but then we meet the townspeople and her family and her ex-husband and learn more about her trauma and the gaslighting that followed, and we're very much on her side even as we wince at some of the stuff she does.