Explore every episode of the podcast Half a Million Reasons

As police sirens shatter the stillness of Hickory Bend, Edith Capshaw crosses paths with a long-time rival in a tense parking lot standoff. 

Bernard contemplates what to do with the suitcase of cash he discovered in the river. 

Jennifer Hale's obsession with The Price Is Right keeps the Hickory Bend Police Department running on a strange rhythm, until a call about a body at Foxfire River snaps her out of her game show trance.

Susan Phelps starts her morning the way all great tragedies do, half-asleep, hungover on regret, and already behind schedule. But when her daughter’s sudden friendship with the wrong kind of legacy name stirs up ghosts from the past, Susan realizes some bad apples don’t just fall close to the tree... they roll right back into your damn driveway.

While taking his dog for an early morning walk in the woods, Herb Walker stumbles upon something unexpected. 

Somewhere between a home movie and a crime scene, Beau and Maisie’s woodland escapade takes a sharp turn when the Foxfire River serves up an uninvited guest. One who won’t be leaving a review.

Bernard Capshaw’s morning takes a sharp left turn into something that won’t sit right in his gut for a long, long time.