Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club
May 14, 2026 · 32 min · 16 segments
A forensic anthropologist who secretly writes cozy mysteries. An actress-turned-director who adapts his book into a film he hates. A media tour forcing them together. Just Kiss Already! Author Lily…
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He runs a taphonomic research lab in Canada, basically a body farm where scientists study how human remains decompose.
He's serious, methodical, and private, and he secretly writes cozy mystery novels about a Jazz Age detective named Lady Petronella Armitage.
She's ambitious, warm, and media savvy, and she has a crush on this mysterious author.
Key characters have been changed, the science is wrong, and he's convinced Lauren betrayed his trust.
Then a screenshot of his horrified reaction at the screening goes viral, and it becomes a meme called Fed Up Fred.
And suddenly, the film's production company wants Ben on the press tour alongside Lauren to spin the whole thing into positive buzz.
So now, one person who can't stop talking and one who would rather count bones in a lab are thrown together for a whirlwind media tour, a film festival, and eventually a small town showdown involving highland cattle.
It's a story about two very different people learning that vulnerability isn't weakness, and the producers leveraged the full power of the audiobook format.
First, each chapter opens with a short excerpt from one of Ben's Lady Petronella novels, voiced by Nicola Barber.
Petronella raised the scalpel high, gave her lipstick a quick check in the blade's reflection, and thrust it home.
The chapters alternate between being from Ben's perspective and then from Lauren's perspective.
Ben's chapters are narrated by the star of Kim's Convenience and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Simu Liu.
Lauren's chapters are narrated by Grammy winner Phillipa Soo, best known as Eliza from Hamilton.
So as you move through the story, you're getting it from two different perspectives, each in a different voice.
He runs a taphonomic research lab in Canada, basically a body farm where scientists study how human remains decompose.
He's serious, methodical, and private, and he secretly writes cozy mystery novels about a Jazz Age detective named Lady Petronella Armitage.
She's ambitious, warm, and media savvy, and she has a crush on this mysterious author.
Key characters have been changed, the science is wrong, and he's convinced Lauren betrayed his trust.
Then a screenshot of his horrified reaction at the screening goes viral, and it becomes a meme called Fed Up Fred.
And suddenly, the film's production company wants Ben on the press tour alongside Lauren to spin the whole thing into positive buzz.
So now, one person who can't stop talking and one who would rather count bones in a lab are thrown together for a whirlwind media tour, a film festival, and eventually a small town showdown involving highland cattle.
It's a story about two very different people learning that vulnerability isn't weakness, and the producers leveraged the full power of the audiobook format.
First, each chapter opens with a short excerpt from one of Ben's Lady Petronella novels, voiced by Nicola Barber.
Petronella raised the scalpel high, gave her lipstick a quick check in the blade's reflection, and thrust it home.
The chapters alternate between being from Ben's perspective and then from Lauren's perspective.
Ben's chapters are narrated by the star of Kim's Convenience and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Simu Liu.
Lauren's chapters are narrated by Grammy winner Phillipa Soo, best known as Eliza from Hamilton.
So as you move through the story, you're getting it from two different perspectives, each in a different voice.
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