Crooked Little Lies

Two years ago, Dana Hill was involved in a car accident that left her brain fragile and her family skeptical of her perceptions. When a young man named Bo Laughlin disappears after she nearly hits him with her car, the police begin to look at her as a suspect, and Dana cannot fully trust her own memory of what happened. Her determination to investigate Bo's disappearance, despite her husband's infidelity and her ongoing cancer treatment, leads her into a web of secrets buried in a quiet Texas suburb. Barbara Taylor Sissel's thriller is about the particular horror of being doubted, even by yourself.

Natalie Ross narrates with a measured tension that suits the novel's psychological terrain, voicing Dana's uncertainty without undermining the reader's confidence in her as a protagonist. The suburban Southern setting comes through clearly in Ross's delivery, and she handles the procedural elements of the investigation with enough energy to maintain momentum through the novel's quieter stretches. At just under twelve and a half hours, Crooked Little Lies is a solid domestic thriller in audio.