Love You More
Tessa Leoni • Book 1
by Lisa Gardner
Narrated by Kirsten Potter, Katie MacNichol
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
A cop shoots her husband, claims self-defense, and her daughter is gone — and you'll spend 12 hours unsure whose side you're on.
- Great if you want: domestic suspense with a morally compromised protagonist
- Listening experience: relentlessly tense; the missing-child thread never lets you breathe
- Narration: Potter and MacNichol split perspectives, deepening the unreliable-narrator tension
- Skip if: you need a clear-cut hero to root for from the start
About This Audiobook
State police trooper Tessa Leoni shoots her husband in their kitchen and tells the arriving officers it was self-defense. Her bruises support the claim. But the couple's six-year-old daughter is missing, and the investigation that Detective D.D. Warren is supposed to close quickly becomes something considerably more complicated. Lisa Gardner's first Tessa Leoni novel and winner of both a Romantic Times Award and the Goodreads Choice Award, it demonstrates why Gardner's dual-protagonist approach generates such tension.
Kirsten Potter and Katie MacNichol split the narration between D.D.'s investigation and Tessa's perspective, a casting choice that keeps the moral ambiguity alive — both narrators render their character's version of events as entirely plausible, which is the essential condition for the novel's sustained uncertainty. At just over 12 hours, Love You More is a thriller that takes its characters' interior lives as seriously as its plotting.