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Listen for the Lie

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Listen for the Lie

Written by: Amy Tintera
Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
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A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Mystery!

"A world-class whodunit."—Stephen King

“An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills.”—Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty...”—Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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 its 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.

The truth is out there, if we just listen.

Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2024 • Long-listed, Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2024 • Long-listed, Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials, 2024

"A lot of thrillers these days use the murder podcast as a plot device. This production simulates one better than any audiobook I’ve listened to, to an often hilarious effect. Also, January LaVoy expertly voices one of Lucy’s funniest tics: imagining how she would murder nearly every person with whom she comes in contact."—Vulture

"Narrator January LaVoy is a treat to listen to, as she gives Lucy the sardonic tone she needs as she grapples with life. LaVoy is also a genius in the way she gives life to Lucy's inner voice—a psychological shoulder demon who wants to solve every issue with ... "let's kill him."—The Berkshire Eagle

"Narrator LaVoy absolutely shines as the broken yet charmingly cheeky heroine. Her tale is organically intermixed with podcast excerpts delivered in honeyed and wry tones by Will Damron, each bookended by delightful 'podcasty' melodies."—Booklist

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.

©2024 Amy Tintera (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
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What the critics say

Listen for the Lie is a page-turner from the first sentence to the very last. In addition to being a world-class whodunit, full of carefully doled-out twists, Lucy is a terrific character, feisty and funny and, it turns out, brave as hell. It’s great fun. Readers will rip through this one.”—Stephen King

“Original and deliciously dark with a wicked sense of humor. An addictive page-turner that will keep you guessing until the end.”—Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author

“A singular voice that explodes off the page, Amy Tintera's writing flashes with sharp comebacks and pointed commentary as she expertly knits her web of secrets and small town lies. Hands down the most fun I've had reading about murder.”—Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of The Husbands

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The story kept me guessing until the very end. Written very clever. Initially I thought the main character was scitzifrenic, and must be the one lying....

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In addition to a superb story, this audio book has the distinct pleasure of the best narration I've enjoyed yet in my time as a audio book listener. Together, the story and narration makes for an extremely pleasurable experience. It kept me guessing and I was fully invested in all of the characters. If this spun off into a series, I would obsessively but each new release.

The best audio book I've had in my ears yet!

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I thought Savy’s voice was a creepy in the beginning and actually flinched when she had another idea to kill someone.

The voices in the performance were awesome - really bringing the characters to life.

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I absolutely loved listening to this book; it was read like a movie or true crime show.
Loved the plot and the twisty turns.
Absolutely recommended this one.

Amazing Performance

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Just what my title says, interesting original plot, and professional narration. Well worth your time to listen to.

Good story, well performed

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