e-ALC, 09:39:05
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews & Saskia Maarieveld, et al
Release Date: January 13, 2026
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: December 27-29, 2026
Stand-alone
Source: PRH Audio App (I received this ALC free from the publisher and their app. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Murder, Car Accident, Blood, Death of a Parent, Gun Violence, Police Brutality, Alcohol, Injury/Injury Detail
For Readers Interested In: Adult, Audio, Contemporary, Full Cast Audio, Multiple POV, Realistic Fiction, Suspense, MysteryTwo women. One dead husband. And only one alibi.
Everyone at Chantilly’s Bar noticed out-of-towner Camille Bayliss. Red lips, designer heels, sipping a Negroni. But that woman wasn’t Camille Bayliss. It was Aubrey Price.
Camille Bayliss appears to have the picture-perfect life; she’s married to hotshot lawyer Ben and is the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana family. Only nothing is as it seems: Camille believes Ben has been hiding dirty secrets for years, but she can’t find proof because he tracks her every move.
Aubrey Price has been haunted by the terrible night that changed her life a decade ago, and she’s convinced Benjamin Bayliss knows something about it. Living in a house full of criminals, Aubrey understands there’s more than one way to get to the truth—and she may have found the best way in.
Aubrey and Camille hatch a plan. It sounds simple: For twelve hours, Aubrey will take Camille’s place. Camille will spy on Ben, and the two women will get the answers they desperately seek.
Except the next morning, Ben is found murdered. Both women need an airtight alibi, but only one of them has it. And one false step is all it takes for everything to come undone.
*MY THOUGHTS*
After not reading her other book, First Lie Wins, I felt so out of the loop. I was NOT going to let this one pass me by without reading it, so here we are. And now I know that I need to go back and get that first one because this was good. More like a mystery than a thriller, but I still could not stop reading it!
Ok so when I say more like a mystery, I don’t mean it in a bad way. Just that there weren’t any scenes that had my heart racing or that made me want to scream or that gave me second hand embarrassment or fright lol That’s not to take anything away from it tho. It was still a great mystery where I didn’t guess whodunit, and it was still a great, suspenseful story. I just wished y’all had called it what it was. I don’t want people who want or are expecting a thriller to pick this up and then say they’re bored because it’s not the thriller it was promised to be.
If you’re a character driven reader you will love this! Or at least that’s how it was for me. It was simple to tell everyone apart even though there’s more than 2 POVs. And somehow all these people have something in common or a reason they’re together, so you’ll enjoy the back and forth. I was sitting there like I was watching a tennis match.
That ending was a hot ass mess tho. Not because it was bad, but because of the events lol I legit said out loud, “NO. WAY!” Can confirm if I had been reading this with my eyeballs, I would been flipping the page back and forth because wtf lol This part was what surprised me more than anything in this book.
Although this wasn’t everything I wanted it to be, I still enjoyed this. Elston dissected the idea of an alibi and why its so important. I can’t wait to go back and read Elston’s other book. Hopefully it’s just as good as this one!
Overall, I give this
