Listen for the Lie

I just finished Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera and here is my review.

Lucy, 5 years on, still doesn't remember that night. The night her best friend Savvy was murdered. The night she was found with a head injury, covered in blood, walking not far from Savvys lifeless body. Savvy had her skin under her nails and everyone thought Lucy did it but there wasn't enough evidence to do anything.

When her grandmother makes her come home for her birthday, she finds Ben, the man who hosts a podcast called Listen for the lie and he wants to interview Lucy. He wants to figure out who killed Savvy.

Trouble is Lucy doesn't want to remember. She can't trust that she didn't really kill Savvy that night and the longer she is in town... the more she may start to remember what really happened that night.

I started off really not liking Lucy. By the end of the book I still didn't like her.. She was a great unreliable narrator and it worked really well for me. You never really knew who to trust and it was fun trying to figure out from the tiny clues littered throughout the book. The book runs on two timelines, 5 years ago when the murder happened and current day. I quite enjoyed the format with the interviews. It added some brilliant context for the book and really rounded it out.

I think I accused everyone of murder in this book and I still wasn't certain at the end. It was well written and decently paced and I enjoyed the heck out of it.

I got to the point where thrillers all seemed the same and this one was a nice change of pace.

4 stars. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery thrillers.

Thank you to @celadonbooks for my gifted copy and it's out now

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