A Psychological Thriller Inspired by True Events
A.P. LewisManuscript Miscreant Publishing
She stood four corners from the hospital, and nobody stopped.
Jenna was a medical student who knew exactly what was wrong with her leg. What she couldn't explain was how she had become a woman nobody would help.
Lazard Brain follows a marriage to a man who swore he would die for her and refused to live for her. Drugs, rage and an ankle monitor fill the house. Inside Jenna, something else is keeping score, and it has been waiting a very long time for the microphone.
“Unfortunately, I know far too much.”
Tue, May 21
Every text, read exactly as it was sent.
The messages in this book are reproduced word for word, typos and all. The audiobook gives each voice its own actor: Jenna, Stacks, the narrator, and the people inside Jenna's head.
For podcasts, readings and audio platforms
Lazard Brain is available for licensing, excerpt features and book-reading programs.
- Format
- Full-cast audiobook, ebook
- Running time
- 12 hr 8 min
- Length
- 35 chapters, plus Opening and Prelude
- Genre
- Psychological thriller, inspired by true events
Opening, Prelude and Chapter 1
A self-contained listen: the cold open, the Prelude, and the afternoon Jenna meets Stacks on the Venice boardwalk. Podcasts are welcome to play it in full. Please credit A.P. Lewis and mention lazardbrain.netlify.app.
Read the host script
Before you play (about 40 seconds)
Lazard Brain is a psychological thriller by A.P. Lewis, inspired by true events. Jenna is in her forties, in medical school, and paying her way with a cotton candy stand on the Venice Beach boardwalk. She has survived foster homes, a marriage that nearly swallowed her, and years of men who wanted something from her. Then one afternoon, a stranger with an ankle monitor picks up her basket.
What you’re about to hear is the opening of the full-cast audiobook. A quick heads-up: it contains strong language.
After it ends (about 20 seconds)
That was Lazard Brain by A.P. Lewis. The full-cast audiobook runs just over twelve hours. Watch the trailer and hear more at lazardbrain.netlify.app. That’s L-A-Z-A-R-D brain dot netlify dot app.
Optional, for the end of the segment
The full book deals with domestic violence. If you or someone you love needs help, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233.
Show notes
Lazard Brain by A.P. Lewis, a full-cast psychological thriller audiobook inspired by true events. Trailer and more: https://lazardbrain.netlify.app
Production notes
Starts: “The hospital was four corners away.” Ends: “He was still there.” Running time 10:49. MP3, 192 kbps stereo, 44.1 kHz, mastered to -16 LUFS. Strong language at 1:25, 5:19, 6:54, 8:14 and 8:23.
A note before you listen
This book contains depictions of domestic violence, sexual assault and coercion, drug addiction, dissociation, thoughts of death and suicide, and explicit sexual content.
If you are in an abusive relationship, you are not alone.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 · text START to 88788
Crisis: call or text 988 · Emergency: 911