This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
I wasn’t going to a do a post this week, but then this book was brought to my attention and I just knew I had to let everyone know about it. Amie Kaufman is recommending it, so you know it is probably good. I have already received the audiobook ARC and am very excited to start it soon.
Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera
Read By January LaVoy and Will Damron
Publication Date: March 5, 2024
Summary from Goodreads:
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast “Listen for the Lie,” and it’s too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.
This is Amy Tintera’s first book for adults and I can’t wait to dive in. I really like her YA books, so it will be interesting to see how she handles this adult thriller. It has a lot going for it just from the blurb and it has been getting some high praise too. I am familiar with both of the narrator’s work and am looking forward to seeing how they bring these characters to life. I might just be starting this one as I don’t think my next audiobook I have on hold will be available soon, so even though it is a few months away from the publication date, I just might have to indulge in it sooner. Until next time….
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