Nothing Tastes As Good

Nothing Tastes As Good

Author: Luke Dumas Listening Length: 11h 25m

The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects. Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he...

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Emmett and Lizette had the day off and decided for once to make something of it. “How about the zoo?” he said as they threw around ideas, a proposal they swiftly rejected after googling ticket prices.

“Maybe Balboa, though. I think they still do Resident Free Tuesdays.”

The day was chilly and overcast, the sky a soft and drowsy gray—the kind of weather that thin Californians complained about but that suited Emmett’s well-insulated constitution perfectly.

There was no parking in any of the inner lots, so they abandoned Lizette’s SUV in the zoo lot and walked over.