Josie’s father, Chuck Buhrman, was murdered when she was a teenager. Meanwhile, the unexpected death of Josie’s long-absent mother forces her to return to her Midwestern hometown where she must confront the demons from her past-and the lies on which she has staked her future. When investigative reporter Poppy Parnell sets off a media firestorm with a megahit podcast that reopens the long-closed case of Josie’s father’s murder, questioning whether the wrong person may be behind bars, Josie’s world begins to unravel. The only problem is that she has lied to Caleb about every detail of her past-starting with her last name. Now, Josie has finally put down roots in New York, settling into domestic life with her partner Caleb, and that’s where she intends to stay. After her father’s murder thirteen years prior, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister Lanie, once Josie’s closest friend and confidant, betrayed her in an unimaginable way. Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family and with good reason. The only thing more dangerous than a lie…is the truth.
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I loved Josie’s relationship with her aunt Amelia and her cousin Ellen who are the only people in her family Josie’s stayed closed to.Ī gripping and suspenseful novel about lies, jealousy, family drama, and murder, I was completely addicted to this novel from the first page and I couldn’t put it down.Serial meets Ruth Ware’s In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter-now a major Apple TV+ series starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul, produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine! Even though Josie and Lanie are twins they are completely different and they reacted differently to their father’s murder with consequences that drove them apart. She is strong and determined, although she is a bit over emotional, but it is understandable after everything she is been through.
The characters are very-well developed, they are realistic and likable, some more than others. I loved how the author included transcripts from the podcast along with comments and twits from the followers, some of which were hilarious. I am not a fan of podcasts, having never listened to one, and I don’t really understand their appeal but I was completely caught up in this novel. In addition, Josie has to deal with all the lies about her past and her family she has told Caleb as they threaten to come to light. And when her mother dies, Josie has to go back to that family she hasn’t seen in years.
The podcast goes viral and everywhere Josie goes she hears people talking about it. Poppy Parnell is an investigative journalist who thinks that the man that Lanie accused of the murder is innocent and she wants to prove it on her podcast. She lives a quiet and normal life in New York with her boyfriend Caleb and works in a bookstore until someone opens a new investigation in her father’s murder. Thirteen years later, Josie has changed name and hasn’t spoken to Lanie in ten years. Something happens between Josie and Lanie that pushes Josie to leave and go hitchhiking around the world. Thanks to her twin sister Lanie’s testimony, the killer was arrested, but their mother abandoned them to join a cult and Josie and Lanie moved in to live with their aunt Amelia and cousin Ellen. When Josie Buhrman was 16 years old, her father was killed in their home in the middle of the night. Ma quando una giornalista riapre il caso di suo padre su un podcast che diventa famoso, il suo passato riemerge portando a galla bugie e risentimenti. Tredici anni dopo l’omicidio di suo padre, Josie conduce una vita tranquilla a New York con il suo ragazzo Caleb. Sarà pubblicato in Italia con in titolo Il Bivio il 14 settembre.
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