Tell Her Story

Tell Her Story is a 2022 Audible Original novella by Margot Hunt, performed by Dakota Fanning with a supporting full cast. It runs roughly three hours and exists only in audio.

Paige Barrett had the career she wanted — a staff writer at The Razor, a sharp online magazine in New York. Then she is fired and dumped in the same stretch of weeks, and finds herself back in Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister's guesthouse. Restless, she starts a true crime podcast about Jessica Cady, a well-liked local teacher who died mysteriously two decades ago in a case that went cold without a suspect.

The deeper Paige digs, the less the town's version of events holds together, and the more dangerous her questions become. The novella is a compact psychological thriller built around the mechanics of podcast reporting — interviews, archives, and people who would rather the story stayed buried.