None of this is True by Lisa Jewell

What happens when the unassuming stranger you invite into your home turns out to be the dark subject of your own true crime podcast?

While celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at a neighborhood pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer strikes up a conversation with Josie Fair—an unassuming woman who turns out to be her exact "birthday twin," born at the same hospital on the same day. When Josie later proposes that Alix produce a podcast about her life's quiet transformations, Alix is drawn into a narrative she cannot easily resist. But as Josie slowly insinuates herself into Alix’s home and family, an unsettling history begins to surface. When Josie suddenly vanishes, Alix is left with a dangerous legacy, discovering that her own household has become the central case in a psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator.

Why You’ll Love This Book

The clever podcasting structure weaves audio-friendly layers of interviews, media clips, and shifting perspectives into an addictive, multi-dimensional story. Lisa Jewell excels at crafting a sinister, creeping atmosphere that transforms a chance encounter into a quiet, unsettling invasion of privacy. It delivers a pulse-pounding psychological mystery for anyone fascinated by dark human motivations and the dangerous allure of stranger intimacy.