This book has been all over the Bookstagram universe. It was a combination of a couple of genres (mystery and a titch of romance), but I'll be honest, the romance element surprised me and didn't quite win me over. Instead, I thought the strength was in the tension and the friendship between the two main characters.
This is a solid suspense read with lots of red herrings and narrators Julia Whelan (one of my all-time favs!) and Sean Patrick Hopkins bring the connection between best friends Benny and Joy to life. The different sounding podcast elements were also a nice addition.
My wee beef: There's a pretty big secondary cast which made me pause as the twists were revealed as I tried to remember who that characters was in relation to the others.
But when I initially finished this audiobook, I wasn't sure how I felt about it and had to sit with it for a bit. It was a good read in the moment but isn’t a book whose details will stay with me long.
It's definitely twisty and it lives up to its hype ... but just barely.
My Rating: 4 stars
Author: Tiffany Crum
Genre: Suspense
Type and Source: eAudiobook from public library
Narrators: Julia Whelan, Sean Patrick Hopkins
Run Time: 10 hours, 39 min
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
First Published: March 10, 2026
Read: April 15-19, 2026
Book Description from GoodReads: Best friends Benny and Joy like to say they’ve been saving each other’s lives since the moment they met. Until the day Joy disappears and Benny is suspected of murder . . .
Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners with a different “against all odds” survival story, gleefully finding the weird, life-affirming humor in near-death experiences. Since their first episode on Joy’s experience with severe narcolepsy, they’ve been the best friends everyone wants to befriend—and thanks to the meticulous management of Joy’s husband, Xander, they’ve built a lucrative empire.
The problem is, their next survival story may be their own. When Benny arrives at Joy and Xander’s one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. The one clue shedding light on the couple’s disappearance is the incomplete, previously unseen first draft of Joy’s memoir. Benny is desperate to find them, even when the police soon zero in on him as their prime suspect.
Millions of devoted listeners think they know the “real” Benny and Joy. But as the hours tick by, and the odds seem increasingly stacked against Joy and Xander being found alive, not even the most devoted fans could guess the terrible secrets their favorite famous BFFs have hidden from the world—and from each other.
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