Such Quiet Girls With Noelle Ihli

Barely Famous

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Bestselling thriller author Noelle Ihli joins Kail to talk about her viral BookTok hits—Such Quiet Girls, Ask for Andrea, None Left to Tell, Run on Red, and Room for Rent. We dig into Noelle’s journey growing up Mormon in Idaho, leaving the church, and finding her voice as a full-time writer. She shares the real cases that inspire her novels; from the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) to the Chowchilla school-bus kidnapping. If you love character-driven suspense, true-crime origin stories, and behind-the-scenes craft talk, this episode is for you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the shit show. Things are going to get weird. It's your fave villain,
0:05.6	Kail Lowry. And you're listening to Barely Famous. Today on the podcast, I have Noelle Eylee.
0:25.3	You may recognize her name from the thrillers that she writes, like Ask for Andrea or None
0:29.5	Left to Tell.
0:30.3	And today we'll talk more about her journey in Mormonism and separating herself from the
0:34.7	religion and becoming a full-time writer.
0:36.5	Thank you for joining us.
0:37.2	I'm barely famous. Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. And your newest book came out in April, such quiet girls. Three of us read it, I think, within the last like two weeks. So congratulations on your most recent release. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for reading it. I found it on Goodreads and some of the booktakers were talking about it, but right before
0:55.4	this one, I read None Left to Tell.
0:57.7	Yes.
0:58.5	And first of all, we'll talk about it, but I had no idea that even occurred.
1:03.5	So historical fiction or historical suspense, would you say it is?
1:07.7	Yeah, historical suspense.
1:09.5	So you grew up in Boise, Idaho.
1:11.6	Is that right?
1:12.2	Right.
1:12.6	And how did that shape sort of how you write today?
1:15.9	Does it shape that at all?
1:18.1	It does.
1:18.9	I mean, my family, the motherland is Utah.
1:22.0	Lots of pioneer Mormons in my history.
1:26.0	So the stories like that were always kind of on the periphery
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