TRUE CRIME STORY

The narrators of this audiobook are so effective that the listener can easily believe this is a true-crime story. The full cast has accents from all over Great Britain, adding to the production's seeming factual authenticity. But this is a novel designed to parody the current infatuation with true-crime reporting, something that is not made clear without some Internet browsing. The author, Joseph Knox, even goes so far as to (falsely) apologize to his publisher for his suspect reporting methods and agrees to sever their relationship. In the story an author is researching a book about a beautiful young woman who has gone missing in Manchester. It provides audio of painstaking interviews of the woman's friends and relatives, who offer their contradictory versions of events. M.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2022]