人氣真實犯罪案件Podcast主持人,竟發現自己也成為了當事人之一⋯
人氣Podcast主艾莉克絲這天為了慶祝45歲生日,前往自己常光顧的酒吧,卻意外碰到一位不起眼的女子喬西。沒想到兩人竟是同天生日,而且不僅如此,還非常湊巧地也在同一間醫院出生。幾天後,兩人又在艾莉克絲小孩學校外巧遇。這次喬西告訴艾莉克絲,自己是她的忠實聽眾,並且提出一個大膽提議:她説自己奇特的人生經歷,搞不好可以拿來當成艾莉克絲節目的題材。雖然艾莉克絲隱隱覺得喬西有點兒不對勁,但正苦於節目轉型的她,還是決定放手一搏答應喬西的請求。
隨著兩人越聊越深,艾莉克絲慢慢發現喬西藏著非常黑暗的祕密,而且喬西竟在不知不覺間,已經漸漸滲透進她的生活,甚至是她的住家⋯⋯就在這天,喬西消失在艾莉克絲的家門前,艾莉克絲這才驚覺喬西留下了多可怕的爛攤子給自己,她成為了自己真實犯罪案件節目的主人翁,同時讓家人的生命暴露在致命威脅下⋯(文/博客來外文館)
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her "superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose" (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life--and into her home. But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat. Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?