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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Case Closed, the podcast for true crime fans featuring more than just true crime stories. |
| 0:10.1 | Whether it's a thriller, a mystery, or a crime, either true or imagined, case closed, share stories full of vibrant characters, engrossing details, daring twists, and sweeping suspense. |
| 0:24.9 | Our next season is about to launch, and we can't wait for you to listen along. |
| 0:30.9 | This season will be serializing Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs, |
| 0:36.4 | An atmospheric and suspenseful thriller, you won't want to miss. |
| 0:42.3 | Meet Jane, newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama. Jane is a broke dog walker in Thornfield Estates, |
| 0:50.3 | a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. |
| 0:57.0 | The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded chotchkes and jewelry |
| 1:02.9 | off the side tables of her well-heeled clients, where no one will think to ask if Jane is her |
| 1:09.7 | real name. |
| 1:11.6 | But her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester, |
| 1:15.6 | recently widowed, Eddie's Thornfield estate's most mysterious resident. |
| 1:21.6 | His wife B drowned in a boating accident with her best friend. |
| 1:26.6 | Their bodies lost to the deep. |
| 1:29.8 | Jane can't help but see an opportunity in Eddie. Not only is he rich, brooding and handsome, |
| 1:37.2 | he could also offer her the kind of protection she's always earned for. Yet as Jane and |
| 1:43.2 | Eddie fall for each other, Jane is increasingly haunted |
| 1:47.0 | by the legend of B, an ambitious beauty with the rags to Rich's origin story, who launched a wildly |
| 1:55.0 | successful Southern lifestyle brand. How can she, plain Jane, ever measure up? And can she win Eddie's heart |
| 2:05.5 | before her past, or his catches up to her? With delicious suspense, incisive wit, and a fresh |
| 2:14.5 | feminist sensibility, the wife upstairs flips the script on a timeless tale of forbidden romance, |
| 2:22.6 | ill-advised attraction, and a wife who just won't stay buried. |
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