Rachel is reluctant to encourage Hannah’s inappropriate advances, especially when the letters keep coming as Rachel tries to get settled in Neapolis in advance of the trial, showing up at her hotel or in restaurants where she’s dining. Hannah claims that she’s been trying to contact Rachel for months and has resorted to leaving this letter out of sheer desperation. A woman named Hannah is begging her to look into a cold case involving the death of a young woman in Neapolis over two decades ago. Her fears aren’t exactly assuaged by the contents of the letter. While her listeners know where she’s headed, they shouldn’t know what she looks like or what car she drives. So when Rachel finds a letter placed under her windshield wiper after a pit stop on the road to Neapolis, she’s immediately on high alert. Semi-anonymously, for while fans are familiar with her voice, she and her producer Pete have taken great pains to hide what she really looks like to make it easier for her to do her job without having to worry about starstruck witnesses or, worse, stalkers. Rachel Krall has taken her hit true crime podcast on the road to semi-anonymously cover a controversial rape trial taking place in the small town of Neapolis, North Carolina.

In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town’s dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before.

The night swim by megan goldin