First published 2021
Twenty years ago, two eleven-year-old boys were brutally killed in Bristol. Police quickly arrested Sidney Noyce, a mentally disabled man the victims had bullied. Noyce maintained his innocence through decades in prison until he hanged himself in his cell. His suicide brings the case back into public view. Cody Swift, a journalist who was best friends with the murdered boys, returns to Bristol with a plan. He launches a true crime podcast to make people talk after years of silence. Swift believes he can uncover what really happened to his childhood friends. But as he digs deeper into the past, he must confront whether he can handle the truth he seeks. The investigation forces him to question everything he thought he knew about the tragedy that shaped his life.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: second-chance, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Bristol
Period: 20th-century
416 pages · Paperback
Content warnings: mental-illness, suicide