Kill Show

APPLE BOOKS REVIEW

Get sucked into a sensational mystery set within the controversial true-crime industry. Shortly after 16-year-old Sara Parcell disappears, a video of her grieving parents goes viral, resulting in a smash-hit reality show called Searching for Sara. Author Daniel Sweren-Becker cleverly presents his novel as an oral history compiled a decade after Sara’s disappearance featuring audio interviews with more than two dozen subjects, including the missing teen’s family, friends, and neighbours, as well as the police and the TV crew. A wealth of shocking twists slowly reveal that the supposedly solved mystery is, in reality, far more complicated. Sweren-Becker perfectly mimics the oral-history format, calling up a host of fascinating people like a seedy Hollywood producer and Sara’s conflicted parents. And each major character gets their own narrator, making it all feel utterly real. Just like a great true-crime podcast, Kill Show will have you on binge mode.