Listen for the Lie

A Novel

By: Amy Tintera

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

"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

"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 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

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.

©2024 Amy Tintera (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

“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

Loved the story…hated the music

I really enjoyed this book. Great performances, too, but the music intro/outro was exhausting. It was a total distraction. I’m hoping they cut them out and re-release.

Clever format for audiobook

I loved the integration of a podcast into the audiobook format, and this was a fun mystery story with characters I liked, all of whom weren’t too perfect or portrayed as only good or only bad. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would love to hear more like this from this author!

Crime podcast novel? Yes please!

I love a good murder mystery, and I love podcasts, so listen for the lie was an obvious choice to listen to. Did not disappoint! Kept me guessing til the end, and the narration and audio was perfect! Do yourself a favor and buy this one now!

Great thriller

I love the narrators. They did a great job. A very interesting plot with a likable main character who was strong in the right way

Very good whodunnit

Prose was great. Sometimes sassy and funny. Very enjoyable will look at her other work

A WORK OF ART

Two of the most talented narrators in the industry make this story a work of art. Will and January are dynamic together. They take this brilliant story to life in a unique and exciting way. Great who-done-it plot. Well paced and delivered seamlessly. Ten stars.

The ending was a surprise.

The writing style was more tiring than amusing, but the story was good. Enough already.

Well worth it

Just enough twists and turns to make it enjoyable, well worth the time, well done, interesting format

Kept me wondering

Strange story but interesting and I kept waiting to get to end to discover how it ended

Page Turner

Twist around every corner, don’t know who to trust, wish there would have been a 5 years later part at the end.