Tell Me What You Did
A Novel
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4.2 • 15 Ratings
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
ONE OF THE BEST MYSTEY-THRILLERS OF THE YEAR — Marie Claire
She gets people to confess their crimes for a living. He knows she’s hiding a terrible secret. It’s time for the truth to come out…
Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they’ve committed to her audience. She can’t guarantee the police won’t come after her “guests,” but her show grants simultaneous anonymity and instant fame—a potent combination that’s proven difficult to resist. After an episode recording, Poe usually erases both criminal and crime from her mind.
But when a strange and oddly familiar man appears on her show, Poe is forced to take a second look. Not only because he claims to be her mother’s murderer from years ago, but because Poe knows something no one else does. Her mother’s murderer is dead.
Poe killed him.
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Girl in 2A and The New Neighbor comes a chilling new thriller that forces the question: are murderers always the bad guys?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This intriguing if shaky thriller from Wilson (The Father She Went to Find) centers on a true crime podcaster consumed by guilt. Thirty-year-old Poe Webb of Manchester, N.H., hosts the wildly popular podcast Tell Me What You Did, in which she encourages anonymous callers to share details of the disturbing—and often criminal—things they've done. Part of Poe's motivation for starting the show is rooted in her private guilt for getting away with murdering the man who killed her mother 17 years earlier. When someone named Ian Hindley calls into the podcast claiming to know details about Poe's life in New York City and her mother's death, she fears she's about to be exposed. Then Ian identifies himself as the man who killed her mother, and Poe must reassess everything she thinks she knows about that tragedy. Wilson toggles between transcripts of Ian and Poe's conversation, scenes of the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between them, and flashbacks to Poe's time in New York. Despite the strong setup, Wilson struggles to sustain the rush of the first few chapters, with Ian deploying the same lukewarm scare tactics again and again until the satisfying-enough finale rolls around. This doesn't fully live up to its potential.
Customer Reviews
Exciting but rushed ending
I was really hooked on this for a while, lots of things to keep you interested- but the ending seemed to rushed to tie everything up that it made jumps to conclusions that it took a lot of time setting careful logical groundwork for - so a but disappointed there, but that’s all!