I Didn't Do It

By: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith, Catherine Ho, Kyle Burrow

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

A murder at a suspense writer convention makes everyone a suspect—especially the victim's literary rivals.

Murderpalooza, the premier thriller writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when bestselling author and industry favorite Kristin Bailey is found dead in her hotel room, four rival authors—a midlister, an egomaniac, a has-been, and a newbie—also get targeted by an anonymous social media account and wonder if they're next.

First, they find themselves bonding to try to find out who's behind it. As the account taunts them, it slowly reveals secrets that each of them have connected to Kristin—secrets that make them a suspect in each other's eyes. Soon, they are turning on each other and silently accusing each as a killer. With time running out until the awards ceremony where the social media account has promised a big reveal, the only thing they know for sure is that no one is better at both creating and solving a mystery than the people who write them for a living.

Jaime Lynn Hendricks gives the listener a thrilling peek into the thriller writing world and those that inhabit it in this gripping suspense novel.

©2023 Jaime Lynn Hendricks (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Disappointing

Narration was annoying. Story seemed too drawn out but that was perhaps because of the narration.

Returned because of male narrator

My ratings on overall and story are meaningless because I had to return this title. The male narrator was so annoying that I could not endure more than the first few pages. Seems like this would be a good read but not a good audible book.

Entertaining, albeit predictable

Story was entertaining, but predictable. Maybe it's because I read a lot of mysteries, but I called the ending about 2 chapters in - usually I'm a "still guessing at the last minute" kinda reader. But like I said, it was still entertaining and enjoyed the author's writing style.

Seems like a lot of folks had trouble with the male reader, and I did, too. He has a great voice and I get what he was going for, but it just didn't translate to audio - I'm sure it would have worked great for screen. Female readers were both great.

Listen for the story, definitely not the male narrator!

Pretty good story that caught me at the end with a plot twist. The author uses the very interesting & thought-provoking observation that social media can turn a rumor or misinformation into perceived reality to drive the story. The main characters, 4 thriller writers, are by and large, rather self-absorbed and unlikeable, but the story drags you into their paranoid world as each believes one or more of the others might have done it.
The main problem with this audiobook is the male narrator. The women are good, if not outstanding, but he is AWFUL. It’s clear he did not prepare and is just reading in a monotone better suited to technical manuals. A couple places you could hear when he got to the end of a line, then realized that it was not the end of the sentence. He also attempted, very unsuccessfully, French and Italian accents that were prone to wander all over Europe. At one point Vita, who is supposed to be Italian, I think, sounded like she might be German. And, unfortunately, he narrated both of the male writers. It was so torturous that I considered giving up , but the story was interesting enough that I stuck it out. And was rewarded with a fairly clever twist ending.
Overall: pretty good mystery, okay female narrators, dreadful narrator.
Depending on your tolerance, an okay listen.

Needs new narrators

One of the female narrator's has a pacing issue and it was hard to stay in the story. The male narrator mispronounced words. Story was ok.

Good story, but…

The story plot was good. The narration really ruined it for me. The male voices were narrated as if each sentence ended in an exclamation point.

wasted credit

happy to complete and forget. narration not to my liking. wasted promising premise. painful inner monologues at tween level, characters barely distinguishable. imho

OK story

Male narrator sounded like a robot. Difficult to listen to. Female narrators good. Glad I made it to the end. Likes the twist but hard to make it to the end.

Terrible male narrator

Glad I muscled through the narration because I enjoyed the story. Wish I picked the hard copy instead! (I will remember his name to avoid other Audibles with him).

Interesting premise

I disagree with some of the other listeners about the male reader. I thought he did a good job although his accents could be off a bit. It wasn’t too distracting though. Enjoyed the inner dialogues of the characters. We all know people like them.