Austin Butler to Star in Epic Crime Drama CITY ON FIRE

For fans of past and present stories, multiple POV, small town, and secrets! Three women, one dead: Ciara Dunphy is an influencer with the perfect life; Mishti Guha is stuck in an arranged marriage with an absentee husband/father; Lauren Doyle is the Irish village outcast. Ciara being found dead in her home quickly reveals that the “perfect life” she lived was a lie, as many had reasons to gain from her death…

For fans of past mysteries, snarky humor, and fictional podcasts! Lydia Chass’s entire life plan is immediately endangered when she finds out the school’s counselor messed up and she doesn’t have the credits she needs for college. So the school lets her do a podcast with a focus on the history of the town to make it up. Her focus becomes the town’s Long Stretch of Bad Days: a week that saw a flash flood, tornado, and an unsolved murder. Partnered up with Bristal Jamison, the two teens represent the opposites of the town. Chass is believed to be the wealthy kid, and every Jamison is painted with a wide brush, assumed to be a criminal. At first, their biggest problem is getting along, but soon they’ve added a missing young woman, fallout from Chass’s father representing a defendant the town wants punished, and a lot of things not adding up to the unsolved murder…

I was fully immersed in the audiobook, which is narrated by Brittany Pressley.

(TW mentions of alcoholism/ mentions attempted parental child kidnapping case/ past animal deaths caused by natural disaster/ past domestic violence, brief detail)