Bestselling mystery novel 'Listen for the Lie' is coming to TV

True transgression podcast lovers, bookworms and enigma bid fans volition each find thing of involvement successful “Listen for the Lie,” the latest deed publication to get the TV treatment.

Universal volition accommodate the thriller caller into a play bid of the aforesaid name, the workplace announced Sunday astatine the L.A. Times Festival of Books.

Author Amy Tintera‘s bestseller, published past March, follows Lucy connected her quest to lick champion person Savvy’s murder, successful which she is the premier suspect. The TV series, written by Rachel Shukert (“Nine Perfect Strangers,” “The Baby-Sitters Club”) and enforcement produced by Tintera, Shukert and Dinner Party Productions’ Sue Naegle and Ali Krug (“Pam & Tommy”), is successful improvement astatine UCP, a part of Universal Studio Group.

At the commencement of the novel, it’s been 5 years since Lucy was recovered wandering the streets covered successful her champion person Savvy’s humor soon aft she was murdered. After moving to L.A. to commencement a caller life, Lucy is forced to revisit her tiny Texas hometown — and the circumstances of Savvy’s decease — erstwhile the big of the deed existent transgression podcast “Listen for the Lie” makes the lawsuit the absorption of his adjacent investigation.

Tintera, Naegle, Shukert and Jordan Moblo, the enforcement vice president of originative acquisitions and IP absorption astatine Universal Studio Group, archetypal announced the task Sunday astatine the L.A. Times Festival of Books, wherever the radical joined The Times’ Matt Brennan for a sheet treatment astir book-to-TV adaptation titled “A Novel Approach to a Television Series.”