With a recent true crime podcast’s rise in popularity, Lucy finds herself back in the limelight as a suspect in her best friend’s murder. The character development and relationships were fantastic. I have read other psychological thrillers with a podcast plot…this one shines. With this novel being told with an Unreliable Narrator, the twists met my expectations of a good thriller and I am still left with questions. I would welcome a chat with anyone who would like to discuss this book!
The twisty black wire adrift a bright red background on the cover not only reflects the podcast references but also the twists and turns of solving a crime.

This book hooked me right from the beginning. While I was worried for a little bit that it would be an amateur detective (which I hate) and did go down there somewhat - it was a banger! I loved the aspect that the victim was not the way everyone was "remembering" her, I loved that the podcast was an investigation into a cold case. I thoroughly enjoyed the cat and mouse game throughout. I love love loved that she spoke to us (the reader) and really gave us a look at the way she operates - this was so refreshing! What I didn't like is that everyone was going around kissing our MC. Pretty unrealistic that she's everyone's cup of tea. The commentary on men and society and singledom was not overdone.

LOVED this book and could not put it down. Listen to all the reasons I loved this: Podcasts within books, main characters who are sassy, strong, and unliked by all the other characters, unexpected romance within a thriller, funny Grandmas, and not seeing the ending coming at all! Easily 5 stars

Listen For The Lie, is the story of Lucy and Savvy.. they become very close after college. It seems like an odd match, as they really didn’t get along in High School. But they are older now and people can change right? Well one night they both attend a friend’s wedding, where things get complicated. Savvy is found dead, a brutal death and Lucy is found wandering around full of Savvy’s blood a day later. It appears that Lucy is the killer but the local police can’t prove she is the one.. so she Piglet, is at a pretty great time of her life. She has the career she wants, an editor for a London Publishing house, a fiancée who she loves dearly and a new home. The home is her safe haven, her kitchen her heart. She is 14 days away from her wedding and she is happily enjoying each day, as the wedding approaches. She feels giddy with her life, almost like it is too good to be true. The author tells about each day, leading up to the wedding, in such a realistic way. Piglets family, her in laws to be and finishing up work for her wedding/honeymoon. As if she wasn’t nervous enough, her fiancée admits to a terrible betrayal, that makes her rethink everything. Can anything be the same again? Is there someone she can trust with this betrayal? What is she to do? This was a very good read. The characters were honest and human. Showing you can have every feeling under the sun, before your wedding. That sometimes you have to listen to your intuition and not chalk everything up to wedding jitters.
This was a four star read for me. I want to thank Netgalley, Lottie Hazel & Henry Holt & Company for my copy of Piglet for an honest review. It was a pleasure reading and reviewing this book. I hope you enjoy it too. can’t be prosecuted but she can’t live in the town anymore. She becomes a pariah. She heads for Los Angeles to star over and mourn her friend. Oh, one twist she has no recollection of anything that happened the night of wedding, accept for getting ready for it.
After living in LA for a few years the secret of the murder gets out and she loses her boyfriend, her job and her home. A podcaster Ben Owen, has rekindled the drama behind the murder. He goes to Lucy’s home town and speaks with her ex husband, her mother, family and people from town. Everyone thinks they know what happened and are eager to speak with Ben. Ben though, is looking for the truth.. Can he figure out who did it? Can Lucy get her memory back? How could her perfect life, marriage and home not be enough? This was a suspenseful read. I really like the use of the podcast episode chapters. It really put another layer it to a very interesting story. I liked how w the author brought together Lucy and Ben to figure things out. You can only hope they both have Lucy’s interest at heart. This was a four star read for me. I love a good mystery and this book didn’t disappoint. I want to thank Netgalley, Amy Tintera and Celadon Books for my copy for an honest review. It was my pleasure to read and review this book. I hope you enjoy it too.

✨𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀✨
• unlikable narrator
• small town secrets
• podcaster
• amnesia
🌶️🌶️

✨ 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 ✨
In this small town where is a liar, Lucy returns and, with help she didn't ask for from podcaster Ben Owens, is forced to try to remember if she killed her best friend

✨ 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 ✨
I listened on audio while reading with my eyeballs and it made staying focused on the audio easier. Since the book is centered around a podcast it was cool to hear the podcast chapters arranged to sound like a podcast episode. The voice actors were amazing.

If this book wanted us to dislike main character and prime murder suspect Lucy, then the story nailed. Not only is she sarcastic but she is so blasé about being a prime murder suspect ; she does not give a rat's ass about a whole town hating her. Her questionable choices throughout had me screeching.

This is for the thriller/mystery lovers out there wanting to solve a crime. Just be prepared to hate pretty much everyone in this entire town, including podcast host Ben Owens.

This book was hard to put down with lots of twists and turns. I ended up listening to this book after learning episodes of the podcast was mixed with the book itself.

I enjoyed this debut novel that explored a small town murder 5 years after it happened.

While the main story is told from one perspective, we do hear multiple points of view from the podcast episodes.

If you are a true crime fan and enjoy small town stories, add this book to your TBR.

Thanks to @netgalley and @celadonbooks for providing the ARC.

I absolutely loved the main characters in this book! I would love to see this become a series!

Thank you NetGalley for the early release copy 😁

Thank you to Net Galley for the ARC ebook in exchange for feedback.
Savvy and Lucy are friends until Savvy turns up dead. Since Lucy is found wandering and covered in blood, she is suspected of the murder. Lucy, however, does not remember anything about that night.
Ben comes to town to research and interview about the case for his podcast, Listen for the Lie. Ben and Lucy team up to find out what happened that night at a friend’s wedding.
I really liked the Lucy character, snarky but likable. Some characters not so likable.
Great book, fast-paced but easy to follow. I will look for next reads by this author.

The author does a good job of keeping the reader hooked, with just enough breadcrumbs to keep the mystery going. Enjoyed this book!

A twisty, turny thriller! Lucy is hillarious and dry witted. As someone who uses humor as a defense mechanism I got her. I enjoyed the podcast element, and I think the reveals were perfect. Definitely for fans of Good Girls Guide to Murder, but make it adult fiction.

I absolutely loved this read! Such a fun & cinematic story. I could see this becoming a movie. I hope to see more by this author in the future.

📚 Listen For the Lie by Amy Tintera
4⭐️

Like many people, the podcast Serial got me hooked on true crime. Five years ago, Lucy was found wandering the streets with a head injury covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood. Everyone in her small Texas town thinks she’s a murderer. Only Lucy has no memory of that night and no idea what happened to her best friend. Now she’s living in LA, where no one thinks the worst of her, when a popular podcaster decides to make Savvy’s murder the focus of his new season. This one was great. The format of the book was unique and the podcast transcript was part of the story. I bet it’s going to be fantastic as an audiobook! The characters were well developed and it kept me guessing until the end. It just came out so make sure to pick it up when you’re ready for a good mystery with a fun unreliable narrator. It’s not to be missed. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Publishers for this copy. It was a good one!

amy tintera the woman you are!!
this was so much fun and a perfect addition to the growing true-crime-podcast-thriller genre. If you're not already a fan of these stories or you're getting sick of them, I wouldn't say this is a *must* read. But if you're like me, and you like a well-produced audiobook for your walks with your dog, you should definitely add this to your list.
I thought this had some of the best-developed side characters I've read in a thriller—they felt like real people, and not just a walking set of clues. The grandma was sooo fun, and I again really recommend the audiobook for all the voices.
Wasn't the most mindblowing conclusion (I loooove thrillers but I'm getting to a point where it's like... there's only so many endings). But I had a really fun time and I would definitely keep an eye out for future suspense releases from Amy Tintera.
And what a TREAT that, in my new tradition of always reading backmatter/author bios, I realized that this was the author of Reboot!! I ate that up on a drive to a seventh grade soccer game and it's so fun to find authors that you enjoy into adulthood.

Listen for the Lie was just the mystery I needed to get my out of a reading slump. I was gripped from the start, following Lucy as she travels back to her hometown where everyone thinks she’s the girl that got away with murder- including Ben, a crime podcaster desperate to interview her. Twists and turns of truth slowly reveal more and more of what really happened the night of Savvy’s murder.

I loved this book! Bouncing between Lucy and the podcast episodes- made for a unique way to meet characters and start to piece the mystery together!

This book was so good! I wanted to know but happened but I didn’t want it to end! I had both the ebook and audiobook. Knowing it had a podcast aspect, I opted to listen to the majority of this book. The narrators, January LaVoy and Will Damron, did an amazing job with this! I would listen to an entire series of books on Ben’s podcast!
I’m not sure what I had expected, but the ending we got was NOT where I saw it going. Which was great. I loved how we slowly got glimpses of what happened based on different views and Lucy remembering little by little what actually happened. There is so much I want to say about this book but I don’t want to give anything away! Read it, listen to it, it’s so good!

This book *earned* its five stars from me. I normally dislike thrillers because they generally aren’t written very well, and it’s pretty common for me to give up after a few chapters. Listen for the Lie is the exception. It was unputdownable and a lot of fun to read. I hope Amy Tintera continues writing adult suspense novels - the genre needs someone like her to remind everyone that it can be done well!

This was one of the most enjoyable thrillers I've ever read/listened to. The main characters inner monologue had me laughing, while all the other characters really had me trying to guess how this one turned out. I can't wait to read more from this author in the future.

I'm a sucker for a book that has a built-in Podcast, especially if it's True Crime. Lucy's story -- believing she murdered her best friend, Savvy, but not remembering it -- drew me in from the beginning. I knew this would be a tale of discovery as Lucy struggled to remember what happened on that fateful day. Enter podcaster Ben Owens, who is determined to find the truth no matter what it is. Lucy decides to work with him despite her family feeling that she is making the wrong decision. As each podcast episode dropped, interviews revealed more and more of the story until the shocking ending! This was my 3rd five star read of the year and definitely worth the hype!

This thriller had me gripped from the first few pages. I loved Lucy and her sarcasm and sass all throughout the story. In the book, we follow Lucy who is going back to her hometown where everyone believes she murdered her best friend Savvy - but even she doesn’t remember what happened. With a new podcast following the event and discovering new evidence, Lucy and the podcaster, Ben are determined to uncover what really happened. I liked the twists, turns, and glimpses into the story each character brings to the podcast. This was a fun and quick read!

This book kept me on edge for the entire thing. I literally couldnt guess for the life of me who hurt Savvy and was shocked at the ending. I loved the podcast chapters, family drama, BEVERLY- WHAT A GEM, and that there may be a potential future for Lucy and Ben! What a page turner!

Thank you, NG, for this copy!