All I Said Was True cover art

All I Said Was True

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

All I Said Was True

By: Imran Mahmood
Narrated by: Tanvi Virmani
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

 Bloomsbury presents All I Said Was True by Imran Mahmood, read by Tanvi Virmani.

Longlisted for the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

'A thoroughly compulsive ticking-clock thriller’ TM LOGAN

'The very definition of a compulsive page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER
_______________

I didn’t kill her. Trust me…

When Amy Blahn died on a London rooftop, Layla Mahoney was there. Layla was holding her. But all she can say when she’s arrested is that ‘It was Michael. Find Michael and you’ll find out everything you need to know.’

The problem is, the police can’t find him – they aren’t even sure he exists.

Layla knows she only has forty-eight hours to convince the police that bringing in the man she knows only as ‘Michael’ will clear her name and reveal a dangerous game affecting not just Amy and Layla, but her husband Russell and countless others.

But as the detectives begin to uncover the whole truth about what happened to Amy, Layla will soon have to decide: how much of that truth can she really risk being exposed?
_______________

'A relentless, absorbing thriller' JANICE HALLETT

'I loved every single page!' GILLIAN MCALLISTER©2022 IMZO Ltd (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Rise cover art
Her cover art
Midnight at Malabar House cover art
The Dentist cover art
A Killing in November cover art
Tell Me How This Ends cover art
Keep Him Close cover art
The Night Raven cover art
The New Family cover art
The Missing Ones cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
And it was! What a great plot. Its rare to get into a book so quickly but this had my attention from Chapter 2 on. I thought I knew the outcome but couldn’t work out how that was going to unravel. The characters are believable, and their behaviour lent itself to the twists and turns. Right to the end.

Great book. So intelligent and well written. Have a previous one to read and there will soon be a third!

With the temperature outside 41 degrees this needed to be special

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love Imran Mahmood's work, and this is no disappointment.

I found the the unreliable narrator and interesting device and and fell for one or two red herrings along the way.

if you like thrillers that keep you guessing right until the end this book is for you you. being a writer does an excellent job of managing a number of different accents and her voice quality really makes this and easy listen.

Gripping!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another example of the complexity required when writing an unreliable narrator. I'm a big fan of books which bounce between POV or timeline, and it's refreshing to hear it done well. Few authors can hold the 1st POV well, but this book is a great example. The lot unravels slowly, but the mystery is addictive. Could she be lying? Maybe insane, or dillusional?

Great performance, too.

Great twisty narrative

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Narrator was mostly good, accents were ok though some of the detectives were a bit comical. The story started promisingly and was well written on the whole. There is some stuff that goes nowhere talking about free will, reminding me of first year philosophy class. The main character seems incredibly gullible and possibly suffering from a possible mental illness, I may have missed something there. The main premise was so implausible that I expected a big twist, but there wasn’t one; it seemed odd that a lawyer could not work out what was going on. I think this story was genuinely unusual but I was disappointed in how it played out.

All I said was true

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.