Welcome to Case Closed.

If you've been following along this season,

you've likely just finished listening to Dirt Creek by Haley Scrivener,

narrated by Sophie Lockren.

Loved what you heard? Today we have an early excerpt from Haley Scrivener, narrated by Sophie Lockren. Loved what you heard?

Today we have an early excerpt from Haley's next audiobook, Girl Falling, on Sale March 11th, 2025.

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1. Wednesday, 6th September 2017.

Why would my best friend want to destroy my life?

The cliff the three of us were standing on curved down to the valley, the way your ear joins

your neck, the rock shining yellow and blood

orange in the sun, the smell of damp earth growing warm.

I was doing everything I could not to think about the question that had been running

through my head since the night before.

I was pretty good at that, pushing stuff down.

I reminded myself that I was in love, that everything was better since I was pretty good at that, pushing stuff down. I reminded myself that I was in love, that everything was better since a woman named Magdo had arrived,

slipping into my life, filling it, changing its mood and temperature.

It made what Daphne had done harder to accept, I realized.

Now I knew that things could be better, different than they had been.

I took five deep breaths.

On a day like this, you looked across the valley and everything was too sharply in focus,

all that detail demanding to be noticed at the same time, bright blue sky

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