Love true crime podcasts? In bestselling author Carter Wilson’s newest thriller, Tell Me What You Did, Poe Webb loves them too. So much that she creates one her audience can’t resist. It’s not an investigation into the crimes. It’s way more sinister than that.
Poe invites callers to confess their crimes. She’s still shocked people would admit to doing something horrible, regardless of the potential consequences. Is it to pacify their conscience, to brag, or to steal a moment of fame? She doesn’t know. But she makes no promises about paying the price for what they’ve done. Her listeners are excellent at finding out the specifics and tracking people down.
But when a caller confesses to killing her mother years ago, she’s sure he’s lying. After all, she witnessed the murder. How could he be her mother’s killer? Poe killed the man herself? But this man knows specifics about the murder. Could she have been mistaken? Who is the man hunting her, and who did she kill? When Poe finds herself the star of her own show, there is only one thing left to do: survive.
Wilson does an excellent job of ramping up the tension using unreliable memories and possibly mistaken identities, taking the premise of true crime podcasts to a tension-filled “what if” on steroids. The story jumps from the present to the past, and back, and alternates with the transcript of Poe’s forced confession on a live broadcast. Who’s telling the truth and who’s hiding it? You won’t know for sure until the very end. Loved this book! Buy it here.
