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Start giftingThis is How We End Things
A Novel
Narrator
Chelsea Stephens
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Length
9 hours 36 minutes
Language
English
Bookseller recommendation
“LOVED this one. I love when psychologists write novels. The premise of this one was REALLY intriguing. We all love a good unreliable narrator but in this one, the entire group was studying LYING so who could we trust? Was the whole group lying? It was so fascinating. I thought the characters were well developed and the plot unfolded at a great pace. ”
— Amy • As the Page Turns
Bookseller recommendation
“An authorized psychological study on dishonesty that requires deceiving subjects is suspended after one brings a knife to a session. The six PhD candidates running the experiment are upset, and one ends up dead in their professor's office. Thus begins a fun closed-circle mystery investigated by the determined Detective Larson and the nearing-retirement campus police officer, Lyons. The characters are well-developed, the mystery is high stakes without being stressful, the setting is confined and intriguing, and I enjoyed every moment of this book. ”
— tee • Quail Ridge Books
Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by R. J. Jacobs, following a tight-knit group of graduate students studying the psychology of lying. When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles . . .
Campus is empty, a winter storm is blowing in, and someone is lurking in the shadows, waiting for their chance to kill again.
Forest, North Carolina. Under the instruction of enigmatic Professor Joe Lyons, five graduate students are studying the tedious science behind the acts of lying. But discovering the secrets of deception isn't making any of the students more honest though. Instead, it's making it easier for them to guard their own secrets—and they all have something to hide.
When a test goes awry and one of them is found dead, the students find themselves trapped by a snowstorm on an abandoned campus with a local detective on the case. As harbored secrets begin to break the surface, the graduates must find out who's lying, who isn't, and who may have been capable of committing murder. It turns out deception is even more dangerous than they thought . . .
R. J. Jacobs is the author of the thrillers Always the First to Die, Somewhere in the Dark, and And Then You Were Gone.
Chelsea Stephens has a longtime love and appreciation for the performing arts, with experience in on-stage acting, singing, and voice-over. Her love for reading books and the pursuit of the story led her to narration. She enjoys unfolding characters and bringing listeners into new worlds. Chelsea is an experienced voice actor with a talent for mystery, sci-fi, and YA novels. She's a mom to a gaggle of young ones living in the Midwest with her lumber sexual husband.