Plus, there's definitely a classic noir feel to McCray's narration, as he lets listeners in on the story of how he himself became connected to the mystery of Sadie and Mattie's tragic stories. It draws on modern-day true crime podcasting conventions, as McCray interviews people from the town and conducts first-person interviews. (The first episode is already available online.) To be clear, the entire 'true crime' podcast is fictional, but it's treated as if it's a real podcast based on real-life events. Sadie by Courtney Summers, $17.99, AmazonĪnd now, The Girls is a real podcast that you can listen to right now. As he traces her journey, he unearths more and more information about the missing girl - but he's in a race against time to find out what happened to her. When fictional radio journalist West McCray learns about Sadie's disappearance from her loved ones, he decides to start a true crime podcast to investigate what happened to her and her younger sister. Half the book is told through Sadie's perspective, but the other half is told via podcast transcripts. But the people she leaves behind - including a woman who's always acted as her mother - don't know where she's gone, so they commission the help of a radio journalist to help them find Sadie. She hits the road on a mission to figure out what happened to one of her mother's ex-boyfriends - the man she believes is responsible for the death of Mattie. Sadie is the story of 19-year-old Sadie, who disappeared from her small town shortly after her younger sister, Mattie, was murdered.

That's right, this is a whole new style of book adaptation and/or viral marketing. 'It begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl,' or so says West McCray in the introduction of The Girls, a brand new podcast adapted from Courtney Summers's forthcoming YA novel, Sadie, which comes out on Sept.

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