Crime thriller with a psychological aspect.
A popular podcaster, Poe Webb, has a unique hook. She gets people to willingly appear on her show and confess to the bad things they’ve done. No shortage of bad people who happily swear to tell the truth about their crimes to her and her audience. Everything is going well until a man appears on her program and claims that he is the person who murdered Poe’s mother 17 years ago. There’s a problem with that, however, and Poe knows he is lying. That’s because she killed that man herself.
Now the tables are turned and this elusive villain threatens Poe and she manages to get herself into jeopardy. Now he wants HER to tell the world what she did.
Ah. This could have been something but it really was mostly a predictable cliche. The author even uses the acronym TSTL in his narrative — too stupid to live. I felt that is what Poe was. I didn’t like her and I thought the whole story was a bit OTT since there is a lot of potential legal trouble for anyone who appears on her program. It was drawn out, repetitive, and somewhat boring. I really didn’t care if she lived and the conclusion was really anticlimactic. I was disappointed and felt let down after reading all the glowing reviews. I sure didn’t care about the endless interaction with the dog and cat. Sorry, pet lovers, it was too much. I guess the whole story just didn’t find me in the right place for it.
In addition, I listened to the audio book while also following along in the e-book ARC provided by the publisher. The male narrator was fine if unremarkable, but the female voice, Allyson Ryan, was totally miscast. The female MC is supposed to be 30 years old but her voice was deep, masculine, and sounded like that of a 50 year old smoker. It rang false and so irritated me that I had to stop listening. Most of the time an audio recoding enhances my enjoyment of a book, but it didn’t in this case.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series.
Tags - murder, podcast, truth and lies, thriller, revenge
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