Backstory

De: Gabriel Bergmoser

Narrado por: Emma Harvie, Zahra Newman, Ryan Johnson, Zenia Starr, Tom Conroy, Zoe Trilsbach, Michael Caton, Brooke Satchwell, Helen Thomson, Jonathan Jagoe, Uppy Chatterjee

Five friends, one university creative writing course, one weekend away to celebrate. Nobody expected it to end in disaster.

Ten years ago, promising young writer Keith Brooks fell to his death during a weekend getaway with his university friends. The official story? A tragic accident. But when disgraced journalist Phoebe Black stumbles upon conflicting accounts from Keith's surviving friends, she uncovers a web of lies that suggests something far more nefarious happened on that fateful night.

As she delves deeper into the past, Phoebe uncovers a group of once-close friends torn apart by jealousy, lies and ambition. With each revelation, the lines between truth and fiction blur, and the consequences of that night reach far beyond Keith's death. Phoebe must confront her own past and the nature of truth itself as she races against time to catch a killer.

Whose version of events is accurate? And how far will these people go to hide their dark secrets?

©2025 Gabriel Bergmoser (P)2025 Audible Australia Pty Ltd

Layered and nuanced story!

Finally! A murder mystery where the victim isn’t a young female. I’m so sick of most storylines involving violence against women. It gets old being in a world where the person most like me in a story is the person who is dead. So I loved the novelty of a male victim! This book was brilliantly told, with multiple stories layered together yet still mirroring each other. The characters were complex and everyone is an unreliable narrator here. This is audio storytelling at its best—a real gem.

Mysterious and Twisty!

I love the unique character perspective switching throughout this twisty mystery. Nothing - or no one - is quite as it seems. The author plays with truth and perception of reality as we solve an challenging who dunnit. Great cast and performances too!

This was really good!!

Well done and flat out amazing. Once it gets its hooks in you there is no putting this story down. I had no clue until the very end so don’t try to figure it out just enjoy some of the best storytelling you will ever hear. Highly recommended!

frenemies

I enjoyed the performance of this book. It demonstrates how competition, jealousy, and immaturity can lead to tragic results. This was a twisted game of he said she said. It was exhausting. I didn’t wax t to DNF it, but couldn’t wait for it to be over. I am happy it was free and not any longer.

LOVED IT ☺️

I loved the story telling!!!! Each chapter left me wanting more but still giving me just enough. I love the twists and turns and each character felt authentic.

Well voiced characters both literally and in the literary sense

I appreciated how different every character’s voice was both in the literary and literal sense. At the start I had some difficulty differentiating between the characters, but as the story developed, the way every character has their own unique way of writing and speaking really stood out to me. Information is well paced and presented making this one hard to pause. Got me through a full work shift and making dinner afterwards. As someone who majored in journalism myself, I appreciated how each character was presented as archetypes that we we’ve all seen and known. To me, the ending wasn’t a big twist, but it was well worked up to. Worth the listen!

What a "Backstory" ...Great Story

Recommend you pay close attention to the characters. I had to restart the story because with the different characters and stories within the story you can get a little lost. But it was a great listen. Definitely Recommend. The different story line and the narrators were great. A story of friendship, betrayal, Murder and knowing your worth.

Great cast!

I couldn’t stop listening! One of my favorite audiobooks of the year. I look forward to exploring this author further. Also this would make an excellent television series 👀

Twist after twist

I loved it! it was very well written, characters came to life, and suspenseful plot carried each twist into more suspense until the final climax

Easy but interesting read

The story was well paced and interesting, I didn’t expect the twist at the end.