This Story Might Save Your Life

Benny Abbott and Joy Moore are best friends who host one of the biggest podcasts in the world. Their show runs on true survival stories, people who beat impossible odds. One morning Benny arrives at Joy's house to record and finds the front door open and broken glass on the floor. Joy and her husband, Xander, are gone.

The police soon start to treat Benny as their prime suspect. He decides to look for Joy on his own, and his only lead is her memoir, an unfinished first draft nobody has seen before. He has to work out what happened from what she left on the page.

The book is a mystery with a missing-person thriller at its core, told in two strands. In the present, Benny searches and tries to stay ahead of the investigation. Between those scenes come chapters of Joy's own account of her friendship with Benny, so the reader sees the partnership from both sides.

As the two strands move closer, they uncover the secrets the famous friendship rests on. They also settle a matter the show's listeners have always wondered about: whether Benny and Joy were ever more than friends. Expect a story driven by suspicion, with a personal, relationship-focused undercurrent beneath the search.