Psychiatrist Caroline Strange was named one of Brooklyn’s worst doctors in a provocative clickbait article. Ellen Garcia, the journalist who wrote the article, vanishes, and Caroline is the chief suspect in her disappearance. It turns out that Caroline has a great deal to hide—from the police, her family, and listeners—while she pursues disturbing information surrounding a recent patient and links to her bloody past. Luna (
Hideout) keeps listeners guessing through her skillful use of three unreliable narrators. Narrators Megan Tusing, Robb Moreira, and Stephanie Németh-Parker round out these characters superbly, playing to the author’s strengths at ambiguous motives and fractured psyches. Tusing’s Caroline blends self-righteousness and contempt for her clients; listeners can easily understand why a few would volunteer information for the tabloid article. Narrating Ellen’s perspective from captivity, Németh-Parker showcases the horror of slow starvation and psychological torture, a chilling reminder of the life at stake. Finally, Gordon Strong, voiced by Moreira with blue-collar masculinity so brittle it may break, seems incongruous at first, but his importance to Caroline’s story gradually becomes clear, leaving listeners eager for more revelations.
VERDICT For fans of intense psychological thrillers in the vein of Stacy Willingham’s A Flicker in the Dark.
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