Where the Truth Lies

A Novel

De: Anna Bailey

Narrado por: Natalie Simpson

When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the community’s most devastating secrets come to light in this stunningly atmospheric and slow-burning suspense novel - perfect for fans of Megan Miranda and Celeste Ng.

The town of Whistling Ridge guards its secrets.

When 17-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth about what happened. The police initially believe Abi ran away, but Emma doesn’t believe that her friend would leave without her, and when officers find disturbing evidence in the nearby woods, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment of both Abigail’s family and the people of Whistling Ridge, Colorado begin to surface with devastating consequences.

Among those secrets: Abi’​s older brother Noah’s passionate, dangerous love for the handsome Rat, a recently arrived Romanian immigrant who has recently made his home in the trailer park in town; her younger brother Jude’s feeling that he knows information he should tell the police, if only he could put it into words; Abi’​s father’s mercurial, unpredictable rages and her mother’s silence. Then there is the rest of Whistling Ridge, where a charismatic preacher advocates for God’s love in language that mirrors violence, under the sway of the powerful businessman who rules the town, insular and wary of outsiders.

But Abi had secrets, too, and the closer Emma grows to unraveling the past, the farther she feels from her friend. And in a tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark—the truth of what really happened that night -- to change their community forever.

©2021 Anna Bailey. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

All of it

I loved the suspense. The way the ending twisted like you could never think. AHHHHHHH.

Twist

I love a book with a plot twist. I like that we got a view of the lives of the important characters. We got to know them all and in the end one person brought them all together.
Great mystery book!

Love!

Love love love!! Kept me on my toes the whole time and I was trying to hard to figure out who did it and I did not expect who it was! So good!

Okay but boring

Only made it about a little over 3 hrs and had to stop. You can fast forward 3 hrs and still be where the characters were at the beginning. Not sure why Audible recommended this to me.