Listen for the Lie

Five years ago, Lucy Chase walked out of the woods covered in her best friend Savannah's blood, with no memory of what had happened. Savvy was dead, and though Lucy was never charged, her hometown — and much of the internet — decided she was guilty. Lucy fled to Los Angeles, changed her name, and tried to disappear into an ordinary life.

Then a wildly popular true-crime podcast picks Savvy's murder as its next subject, and its host, Ben Owens, starts digging. Summoned home to Texas for her grandmother's birthday, Lucy finds herself back among the people who think she's a killer, forced to relive a night she still can't remember. As she and Ben chase the truth, buried secrets surface — and Lucy has to face the terrifying possibility that she really did it.

Amy Tintera's adult debut is a propulsive, darkly funny thriller told through Lucy's sardonic voice and interludes from the podcast itself, keeping the question of her guilt open until the final pages.