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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Her driving was fast but measured, her manicured hands gripped firmly at ten and two as the car wove through post–rush hour traffic. “We received a tip-off from the SDPD. A friend told us you were being investigated for Justin Matthews’s murder.”

“A friend?” Emmett reached to silence his phone. He’d asked Lizette to swing by the apartment to grab the dogs; judging by the string of profanity-laden texts that followed, the cleaning crew wasn’t quite finished when she arrived.

“Assistant Chief Bautista was a participant in our Phase One trial. Started a two-hundred-sixty-pound diabetic, finished a new man. We’ve been supplying him with maintenance doses in exchange for his help throwing the investigators off your scent.”

“How?”