S20 Ep102: Please Don't Lie! w/ Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 149 minutes

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True Crime Tuesday presents: Please Don't Lie! w/ Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt!

Two years ago, Hayley Stone lost everything. First, her parents died in a devastating fire. Then, her sister overdosed, leaving Hayley alone and hounded by a media circus that turned her family’s tragedy into tabloid fodder. When her new husband suggests a fresh start in the Adirondacks, the promise of anonymity in an isolated mountain town feels like salvation.

But the mountains hold darker secrets than she ever imagined.

Her once-loving husband grows distant and volatile. The widow down the road keeps spewing vague accusations. Not even their new friends—a free-spirited couple living on the property—can help Hayley shake the creeping sense that something is off.
As winter edges closer, Hayley discovers that her sanctuary is anything but safe. Trapped and isolated, she faces a terrifying truth: in trying to escape her past, she may have run straight into something far more dangerous.

On Today's TCT, We sit down with Christina and Anne to talk about Hayleyley's family secrets, the strange relationship she maintains with her new husband Brandon, why her friend Emily suspects there is danger ahead in her new marriage, and we discuss why a new friendship is incredibly fruitful yet suspicious to Hayley!

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0:00.0	Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting.
0:25.0	This is True Crime Tuesday.
0:26.0	I'm your host, Tim Dennis.
0:27.0	Great show today, folks.
0:28.1	Jessica Freeberg on her way with dumb crime, stupid criminals.
0:31.2	And just a bit first, I had the pleasure to read an amazing book this past weekend. I want to pass along to you as well.
0:40.6	Folks, let me tell you, lately I've been reading quite a few thrillers and quite a bit of
0:45.7	crime fiction. This one is an amazing one by two amazing authors that we're going to bring in
0:50.8	here in just a bit. Christina Baker Klein andline and Ann Bert have writ-rat wrote a book.
0:58.1	See, I tell you words is hard today.
0:59.9	Please don't lie, a thriller, which focuses on a young woman by the name of Haley Stone,
1:06.1	who's seeking a fresh start in the Adirondacks with her new husband,
1:10.5	who has experienced a tragedy.
1:12.0	They've all experienced a bit of tragedy.
1:13.7	We're to talk about that tragedy in just a moment here.
1:16.4	But let me tell you a little bit about our authors, and then we'll jump right into this book.
1:20.1	Christina Baker-Kline is the number one New York Times best-selling author of eight novels,
1:25.6	including the Exiles, Orphan Train, and A Peace of the World.
1:29.4	She's the recipient of the New England Society Prize for Fiction, the main literary award, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Prize.
1:37.1	Klein has also written and edited five nonfiction books. Please Don't Lie is her first thriller.
1:43.8	Anne Byrd's debut novel, The Dig,
1:45.6	was an American Booksellers Association Indy Next Pick, the Strand Bookstores Mystery Selection for
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