Audiobook Review: Tell Me by Anne Frasier

Tell Me
Author: Anne Frasier
Narrator: Erin Bennett
Series: Inland Empire (Book 2)
Publication: Brilliance Audio (July 27, 2021)
Length: 9 hours and 1 minute

Description: What really happened in the forest? Hidden crimes and secrets of the past converge in a riveting thriller by Anne Frasier, the New York Times bestselling author of Find Me.

No strangers to evil, criminal profiler Reni Fisher and detective Daniel Ellis both still grapple with traumatizing pasts. It unites them. So has a crime they must solve before someone else dies.

At a campsite on California’s Pacific Crest Trail, a guide is murdered and three young hikers vanish without a trace. The only lead is a puzzle in itself: a video of the crime scene, looking eerily staged, uploaded to social media. The girl who posted it can’t be found. Is it a viral hoax gone unspeakably wrong, or is there something more sinister at play in the forest?

The case intensifies when one of the missing is found wandering down a dirt road, confused and afraid. As Reni and Daniel struggle to sort fact from fiction, a secret past collides with the present, threatening to sever their relationship. Are some truths too much to bear? Will this be the case that finally breaks them?

My Thoughts: Reni Fisher and Daniel Ellis team up again to solve a horrific crime. A guide is murdered and three young hikers disappear at an isolated campsite on the Pacific Crest Trail. The group is from a camp which tries to end teens' addictions to social media. 

Daniel learns that he has a connection to one of the young hikers. He had previously rescued her from a school shooting, and he had had a relationship with her mother when they were college age. Emerson, the young girl, believes that Daniel is her real father. Her mother denies this.

Meanwhile, Daniel has just about given up the search for the mother who disappeared when he was a young boy. That disappearance had ruled his life and was the basis for all the choices he had made in his life. Reni isn't so quick to give up the search and manages to find the woman who wasn't one of her father's victims but who just left and left Daniel behind to make a new life for herself. 

Reni is trying to come to terms with her own bitter past as the daughter of a serial killer. The former FBI Agent makes pottery and does watercolor painting along with a few consulting jobs to find missing people. She's currently fixated on doing watercolors of her father's burial sites. 

This was a nicely twisty thriller with lots of red herrings. 

I bought this one March 23, 2025. You can buy your copy here.