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Tell Me What You Did
By: Carter Wilson
Publication Date: January 28, 2025
Published By: Poisoned Pen Press
448 pages
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Many thanks to Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for the ARC of this book!
Poe Webb witnessed her mother getting stabbed to death as a young girl. Now as an adult, hosts a podcast where she invites those that have committed crimes to anonymously confess them. She let’s them know that while she cannot guarantee that the police won’t come after the confessor, they do not have to give her their real name. Her producer Kip screens the confessors and there’s a rather strange one for this episode. When he gets on screen, the image of him only Poe sees, he looks vaguely familiar, he confesses to being her mother’s killer. Poe is shocked. She believed her mother’s killer to be dead because… she killed him.
Wow, this book is just wow. This was an instant 5 star read for me. I devoured this book is less than 24 hours. It is gripping and thriller, suspenseful and fast paced. The book starts out with a transcript of podcast and then there are some chapters in transcript form and some chapters in prose from from the recent past leading up to the current podcast. Then they meet up and we proceed from that point.
While there are a ton of podcast thriller books, this one is VERY different. The concept is fresh and it’s just written so well. From being able to get into the Poe’s psyche, to finding out Poe’s actions, to questioning if she had the correct person, Wilson was just so brilliant with his writing giving you everything to keep you interested without revealing too much. I didn’t know what was going to happen, how it was all going to play out. How it did play out didn’t cross my mind. So yeah, I was shocked.
Poe has the tables turned on her when her guest who claims to have killed her mother turns the tables on her and has her confess her crimes. But at what cost to her? I understand the ending, though I do wish it ended slightly different or we had a bit of clarity.
I don’t feel my review is really doing this book justice, as I can’t really think of a good enough way to describe this book. This has become one of my all time favorite thrillers and I will be screaming from the rooftops recommending this book.
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