The Killer Question (Unabridged)
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
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Janice Hallett, “the new queen of crime” (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub’s weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence.
Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called The Case is Altered where a weekly trivia game has revived its flagging fortunes—that is, until a body is found in the nearby river. Soon after, a mysterious new team arrives and shakes up the diverse field of regulars by scoring top marks in every round...every week.
Meanwhile, Sue and Mal have a secret of their own. Before arriving here, they were caught up in a secret police operation which meant they had to leave town—and whatever happened back then seems to have finally caught up with them.
Five years later, the pub lies derelict, and their nephew Dominic is determined to make a documentary about their story. What happened at this unassuming pub? And can a single question really kill?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Listen to this full-cast mystery told via group chats, texts, and assorted documents, and have fun piecing together Janice Hallett’s artful puzzle of petty competitiveness, greed, and a past that won’t stay buried. Aspiring TV producer Dominic Eastwood is pitching a true-crime documentary about his uncle and aunt, Mal and Sue. Five years ago, the couple managed a rural pub, bringing in a dedicated group of locals every Monday night with a carefully crafted trivia quiz. This seemingly peaceful status quo gets disrupted when the body of a man previously accused of cheating on the quiz turns up nearby while a mysterious new team starts winning the game every week. Nine narrators turn this story into a fully realized audio drama, and they had us hanging onto every scrap of evidence, wondering what the connection was to Mal and Sue’s murky past as police officers investigating a hush-hush kidnapping case. The Killer Question truly comes alive as an audiobook—it’s a perfect match of story and format.
