Tell Me What You Did

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Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson wasted no time building tension as we realize within the first lines that something is wrong.

Poe witnessed her mother’s murder when she was 13 years old, and now she hosts her own true crime podcast where she invites criminals to, as anonymously as they like, confess their crimes.

She soon finds herself answering her own challenge, “Tell me what you did,” when a man who claims to be her mother’s murderer forces her to confess her own crimes on a live stream. But he can’t be her mother’s murderer - because Poe killed him seven years ago. Or did she kill the wrong man?

Poe’s story is told in a combination of flashbacks with a wraparound of the livestream between herself and the man calling himself Hindley.

There are some video links included in the text as well, but I didn’t think those clips added anything to the experience- in fact, they did the opposite as I got distracted by whether they met my expectations from the text.

The format has made me curious about the audiobook version because I think it could be very effective if done well, so I may revisit this book in that format because this was a chilling thriller - a “ripper” as Poe’s mother would call it as, if I’d had a paper vs. electronic copy, I would have flipped the pages so fast I ripped them.  I had to read fast because there were moments where the tension had me holding my breath until it was relieved - so read at your own risk, I guess.

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