📖

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera
Buy on Amazon Kindle
mystery psychological thriller past tense first POV ~346 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

psychological oppressive volatile

A mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, romance, sexual content.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 90
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 70
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 70%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 60%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count86,448
Page count~346 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

Similar Books

The Couple Next Door US
Shari Lapena
mystery · psychological thriller
less explicit slower paced
86% similar
Watching You
Lisa Jewell
literary fiction · psychological thriller
slower paced
84% similar
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
literary fiction · psychological thriller
less explicit slower paced
80% similar
The It Girl
Ruth Ware
literary fiction · psychological thriller
less explicit less violent slower paced
80% similar
Purchased for Revenge
James
literary fiction · psychological thriller
more explicit slower paced
80% similar