LISTEN FOR THE LIE
by Amy Tintera (Bantam, $38)
If you thought interest in true-crime podcasts peaked a couple of years ago, steel yourself for a new genre: crime fiction that incorporates such a podcast into its plot. While Tintera’s is not the first novel to combine the two, it’s one of the most entertaining.
Tintera uses the novel’spodcast, the airing of which costs Lucy her job in the opening chapter.