The Only One Who Knows

The Only One Who Knows

Author: Lisa M. Matlin Listening Length: 9h 22m

A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from the author of The Stranger Upstairs. Something is lurking below the surface . . . and it’s hungry. With her polished persona as a morning show co-host, Minnow Greenwood s...

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My real name is Minnow, like the fish. Minnows are small and silvery, typically used as live bait.

If we were quick enough, Heath and I scooped them out of the shallows with our bare hands.

We’d cup them gently, marveling at their silver bodies, squirming in the sunlight.

One morning, Dad snatched a minnow out of Heath’s palm, plunged a hook through its bottom and upper lip, sewing its mouth shut, and cast its bloodied body back into the water. He couldn’t understand why we cried.