Wednesday, June 19, 2024

What I Read -- Listen for the Lie

On the recommendation of a friend, I read Listen for the Lie.  The friend is a fellow true crime lover, and though this is a novel, it pulls in the whole podcast world.  Between podcasts and Netflix shows, I think we can explain most of the current fascination with true crime, so despite being not true, it certainly pulls on those same strings.

This is a quick, easy whodunit.  The writing is not great but it's good enough to keep things moving along.  What I can say about it, and part of the reason I kept on with it, is that it has an unreliable narrator.

I love an unreliable narrator.

What you learn quickly is that the narrator is suspected for, though was never charged with, the murder of her best friend.  She has no memory of the event.  As the story unfolds, you -- and she -- figure out how everything went down.

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