Cover Story

By: Susan Rigetti

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's Summary

Netflix’s "Inventing Anna" and Hulu's "The Dropout" meets Catch Me If You Can, a captivating novel about an ambitious young women who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist’s scam.

A Most Anticipated by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, Fortune, PopSugar, and more!

“[A] page-turner that’s hilarious in its dedication to vamping on viral news stories about real-life strivers and cons from Delvey to Instagram personality Caroline Calloway … a delicious read.”—TIME magazine

After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing.

As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her desperate struggles and lost scholarship. Cat’s solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat’s suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora’s life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cat’s glamorous lifestyle, Cat’s perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world.

A whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes listeners deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.

©2022 Susan Rigetti (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Fun Read

This is very Inventing Ana. I highly recommend. It’s a quick, fun read. Finished in two days.

Very good narration

I really loved the storyline and how it has presented. And also, the narrator was really compelling and excited when she presented every chapters. Thanks, Carlotta

That ending!!!

Jaw is on the floor.  Whew this was a fun ride. The mixed formatting (texts, instagram posts, emails...) made it a bit challenging at first to follow on audio, but I'm glad I kept listening because the narrator held my attention the entire time and she did a fantastic job especially with the different voices and accents. Highly recommended especially if you enjoy stories about conwomen and their schemes. 

Fantastic read

This was an amazing story- never a dull page and the twists and turns were unexpected and entertaining. I hated for it to end!!!

WOAH!

Predictable at some points but THE ENDING! Loved the twists and turns and reveal of the truth.

Not good as an audiobook

This book includes a lot of readings of text messages and emails and is just not good in audiobook form. I wish the producer had published this audio book with edits to make it more consumable. “TO .. FROM .. SUBJECT: RE RE RE RE RE Horse Girl”

Young adult book

I hope to be able to exchange this book. The story was aimed for and written in a young adult style.

If you do the audio version the different accents used are almost offensive. Very cliche.

Horrible

Just horrible. Had to fill the meaningless book with “re” and “ www” over and over and over yet again bc the author must not have had anything else to write! Pointless waste of time. Made me angry that I actually tried to listen to it!

Fun read!

The characters are well-developed and interesting. I felt like this was a timely-written book.

Surprise Ending!

Nice & light spring read! After a while the RE:, RE, RE, RE’s … we’re annoying, but I saw the authors point and perhaps came across as annoying g only when listening to it! Fashion, envy, and deception!