Every great story begins with a lie.
A true crime podcaster has to solve the case from the latest season or her own dark secret will be exposed, ending life as she knows it.
Monica Bepson is a small-town girl reveling in newfound success as a true crime podcaster. As hundreds of people fill a ballroom at the biggest podcast event of the year, she gets a shock.
Someone knows the truth.
A letter delivered backstage makes it clear that the secret she thought she’d buried about her missing cousin is in a shallow grave. The blackmailer sends her on a quest to solve the case at the center of her podcast, one involving the state’s most powerful man and a dead prostitute. If she can’t catch the killer, he’ll make sure everyone knows what she did.
She enlists the help of Detective Ben Tanner, who has his own reason to solve the case. Monica’s life unravels as she desperately tries to solve the crime while keeping her secret from Tanner, her family, the town, and the millions of people who listen to her podcasts.
Someone is watching, but his motive is unclear.
Everyone has a reason to lie—and maybe to kill—in the story of a woman who has to confront the lengths people will go to to protect those they love, as she wrestles with the question: Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth?
