9-1-1, where is the emergency?

It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.

Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.

A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?

At this point, nobody knows.

Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life.

I'm Jiu Chang from 2020 and ABC Audio.

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Music Listen now to Bridge of Lies, wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, book nerds.

Happy Thursday to you.

I am the Kate of the Kate and Charlie, welcoming you to the the bookcase brought to you by ABC Audio.

I'm Charlie I'm the Charlie part of the bookcase with Kate and Charlie, but this is really today.

This is the bookcase with Kate because this is a podcast that is tremendously important to her.

As we have said a number of times, we are keeping this

podcast to the extent we can, non-political. There's just too much Sturman Drong in the political

world these days, and we want this to be sort of a safe haven. But there's one issue in which we do

feel very strongly. We're very much against book banning. It's wrong.

People ought to be able to read what they want to read. They should be able to read things that

they find helpful to themselves without other people telling him, no, you can't read that.

So that's one of the reasons, as Kate has talked about on occasion, that she has gone to library school

and has gotten a master's degree in library science. I don't know what she's going to do with it.

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