The Showing

A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist

De: Shelby Shaw

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A hidden identity. A violent past. A killer who knows her better than she knows herself.

I live by routines.
Locked doors. Controlled schedules. Predictable days.

Five years ago, I survived a violent attack while working as a real estate agent in Augusta. I escaped a man who should have been just another client—and I ran. I changed my name. I moved states. I rebuilt my life in Nashville, one listing at a time.

I don’t talk about the past.
I don’t revisit old memories.
I tell myself survival was enough.

Then a client is murdered at one of my properties.

Then a colleague vanishes.

Then another woman disappears.

Suddenly, the police are asking questions I don’t want to answer. Questions about my past. Questions about gaps in my story. Questions that suggest I’m not telling the whole truth.

Maybe I’m not.

Because the deeper I look, the more unreliable my memories become. Familiar events feel distorted. Important details don’t align. And someone is watching me—someone who knows intimate truths about my life, my fear, and a night I can barely remember.

The women around me are dying.
The killer is closing in.
And the truth I buried to survive is no longer willing to stay silent.

I believed I escaped the worst night of my life.

I was wrong.

Tropes:

Unreliable Female Narrator
Real Estate Agent Suspense
💀 Killer Among Us
Workplace Murder Investigation
Gaslighting Psychological Thriller
Buried Trauma Mystery
Mentor-Protégée Relationship
Small Town Dark Secrets

The Showing is a psychological thriller featuring escalating twists, buried trauma, and a deeply unsettling ending that lingers long after the final page.

the fact that the killer was sooo close

I love the twist it was quite surprising I didn't like that Melissa is gone🫣

AI pronunciations are disruptive

the story was alright but I was kind of bothered by the constant mispronciation of regular words; read vs read/ live vs live. latte. LisaMary is probably not the name, but it's pronounced that way for most of the story. I'm guessing it is Lisa Marie. AI model should be better trained, or at least checked for accuracy.

Goofy storyline

It just didn’t make sense. Woah she just sees a crime and viola! She starts life as a realtor? No training? If it wasn’t free I wouldn’t have listened to it. I also don’t like virtual voice.

AI voice

I did not like the AI voice. It was flat. The story itself was good.

The Showing

The story was really good, but the reader was not. It had so many mis pronounced words