Books like Listen for the Lie
Five years after she was found wandering covered in her best friend's blood with no memory of the night, Lucy Chase goes home to her small Texas town, where a true-crime podcaster has come to reopen the case.
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Bluebird, Bluebird
Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger on suspension, drives up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where a Black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman have both been found dead in the bayou.
Down River
Adam Chase, acquitted of murder five years ago but cast out by his family, comes home to Rowan County, North Carolina, when an old friend asks for help, and bodies start turning up.
The Bandit Queens
Five years after her husband disappeared, Geeta lives alone in an Indian village where everyone believes she killed him, and the reputation brings other wives to her door wanting help getting rid of theirs.
Not Quite Dead Yet
Jet Mason is attacked on Halloween in her Vermont hometown and wakes with a brain injury that will kill her within a week, so she spends the time she has left trying to solve her own murder with the help of an old friend, Billy.
Conviction
On the morning her husband leaves her for her best friend, Anna McDonald, a Glasgow mother hiding a past of her own, takes off across Europe with her friend's abandoned husband, a rock star, to solve the shipwreck murders of a true-crime podcast.
The Ice House
A body is found rotting in the ice house at Streech Grange, where Phoebe Maybury's husband went missing ten years ago, and the village, which never forgave Phoebe or the two women who live with her, waits for the police to finish what they started.
The Kind Worth Killing
Stuck in a bar at Heathrow, Ted Severson drunkenly tells a beautiful stranger named Lily that his wife is cheating on him and that he would like to kill her, and Lily, quite calmly, offers to help.
Vernon God Little
After a shooting at his Texas high school, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, whose only friend was the killer, finds himself the town's scapegoat.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Ernest Cunningham, who writes guides to writing crime novels, narrates a family reunion at a snowed-in mountain resort where a body turns up on the first morning, and promises to play fair with the reader about who did it.
First Lie Wins
Evie Porter has the perfect boyfriend and a pleasant life in a small Louisiana town, but Evie Porter is not her real name, and when a woman shows up using the name she was born with, the job she was sent to do starts to unravel.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
For her final-year school project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi reopens the case of Andie Bell, who vanished from their English town five years ago and was believed to have been killed by her boyfriend Sal, and Pip is sure the police got it wrong.
Truly Devious
Stevie Bell, a true-crime obsessive, wins a place at Ellingham Academy in the Vermont mountains, where in 1936 the founder's wife and daughter were kidnapped, and arrives meaning to solve the case.