The Podcast
This is the name of Poe Webb's true-crime podcast where listeners call in to confess past offenses.
What is Tell Me What You Did?
The caller who goes by "______" shocks Poe by confessing on-air to killing someone in her family.
Poe's mother was named this.
Who is Margaret (Maggie) McMillian?
Poe's father owns a pet cat named this, who struggles to get along with Poe's black Lab, Bailey.
What is Grimm?
Poe tracked down the man she believed killed her mother by creating a fake dating profile using photos of this person.
Who is her mother (Margaret)?
This character serves as both Poe’s podcast producer and her romantic partner.
Who is Kip?
Hindley demands that Poe host a live-streamed podcast on this holiday where she must confess her own dark secret.
What is Halloween?
According to the killer's confession on the podcast, Margaret was stabbed this exact number of times.
What is 14 times?
For years after her mother's death, Poe never told her father this major piece of information about the night of the crime.
What is that she personally witnessed the murder (and saw the killer's face)?
What substance does Poe use to incapacitate her target?
What is rat poison?
What was the 1st callers secret that we learn about at the start of the book?
What is he stole a puppy (from the bartender who his wife cheated on him with)?
Hindley forces Poe into the final live stream by taking this person hostage.
Who is Kip?
After stabbing Margaret, the killer restrained Poe, threatened her, and committed this act before fleeing.
What is setting the house on fire?
During the climax at the nearby empty house, Poe's father bursts in wielding this weapon to save Poe and Kip.
What is a baseball bat?
Poe carried out her calculated murder in this city where she moved after college.
What is New York City?
Approximately how many episodes of the podcast have been posted?
The alias "Ian Hindley" is a reference to a real-life perpetrator associated with these notorious English killers.
What are the Moors Murderers (Myra Hindley and Ian Brady)?
What did Margaret's killer say to Poe was the reason for the murder?
What is "she didn't use the safe word"?
Poe stops her father from delivering the final, fatal strike to the intruder during the climax for this reason.
What is so she can kill the intruder herself (to protect her father from taking a life or becoming a killer)?
How are the caller and Poe's murder victim connected?
What is they are brothers?
Seven months after the climax, Poe continues to host her podcast successfully from this unusual location.
What is prison (interviewing fellow inmates)?
What is the Ian Hindley's real name?
What is John Worbly?
What was the safe word between Poe's mom and her killer?
What is gentle?
What day of the week did Poe's dad visit her in prison?
What is Wednesday?
Poe accepted a plea deal after turning herself in, agreeing to lead prosecutors to this key piece of evidence.
What is the location of the buried body?