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When her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught her to trust her instincts. Sera follows the clues hidden in the episodes to an isolated ranch outside Rachel's small hometown to begin her search. She's convinced her investigation will make Rachel so proud. But the more Sera digs into this unfamiliar world, the more off things start to feel. Because Rachel is not the first woman to vanish from the ranch, and she won't be the last... Rachel did try to warn her.
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0 0Sera Fleece, divorced, unemployed, friendless, feels lost. All she has in her life is her favorite true crime podcast, Murder She Spoke. So when the podcast's host Rachel vanishes, Sera knows she has no choice but to follow the clues - the clues she's certain Rachel has left for her in every episode - to Rachel's family ranch in Northern California and to a mystery darker than she expected...
This is a story to be gulped, not sipped, letting yourself get lost in Sera's increasingly unstable narrative. The stylistic choices - Sera's first person voice addressing Rachel directly throughout, with clips and quotes of the true crime podcast sprinkled in and beginning each chapter - are particularly successful at building an unnerving and uneasy mood. (You gotta love an unreliable narrator.) Though I'd like to be smug about my predictions being eventually validated, there were enough twists and turns throughout the book to keep me guessing for quite a while, and enough genuinely creepy characters and situations to keep your suspicions pointed in every direction at once.
Content warnings: Animal death and injury, murder, assault, alcohol abuse, vomit, gaslighting/manipulation.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the advance review copy!
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