From the creator of Alice Isn't Dead: Unlicensed

Alice Isn't Dead

Night Vale Presents

Thriller, Fiction, Nightvale, Horror, Josephfink, Welcometonightvale, Drama, Jasikanicole, Disparition, Aliceisntdead

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

From Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, creators of the genre defining fiction podcasts Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead, comes the new LA noire Unlicensed, starring Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus, and T.L Thompson.

Coming November 10, only to Audible. Subscribe now here: https://www.audible.com/Unlicensed

Unlicensed follows Molly Hatch (Quinn), recently divorced, two years sober, and completely lost on where to go next in her life. On a whim she answers an ad for an assistant to a PI, traveling to an unpromising strip mall on Citrus Avenue in Azusa, CA, where she meets Lou Rosen (Strus). Lou is a brilliant detective, but she’s also a completely disorganized mess, both in her physical space and within her own mind. She loses evidence, forgets what she’s already figured out, and she hasn’t even gotten it together to get her PI license.

Working illegally in the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the cul-de-sacs and strip malls sprawl into the desert, the only clients she can get are those who either can't afford anyone else or have cases that are too marginal for licensed PIs or the police to bother with.

When a teenage girl pleads for Lou and Molly to take the strangest case of their career, they find themselves involved in something much bigger than they were prepared for. This unlikely pair, with no resources and no back-up, follow a trail of seemingly unconnected cases, which leads them to a ransom, a murder, a mysterious wellness center, and a conspiracy that might go all the way to the governor.

Featuring guest appearances by Jason Segel, Janet Varney, James Urbaniak, Cecil Baldwin, Jasika Nicole, Mara Wilson, and more, Unlicensed is a deeply-human, captivating thriller set in the most uncool neighborhoods of America’s coolest city.

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0:00.0	Hi, all. This is Joseph, co-creator of Nightvail, and I am so excited to present the first fiction
0:05.8	podcast that Jeffrey and I have created together since Welcome to Nightvail 10 years ago.
0:10.9	We have been working on this for years now, and it turned out exactly how I hoped it would.
0:16.3	Here is a trailer.
0:19.2	From the creators of Welcome to Nightvail, Alice isn't dead, and within the wires comes a new
0:24.0	audible original. Unlicensed. I'm here about the ad assistant to a PI. In the outskirts of Los Angeles,
0:31.6	where the cul-de-sacs and strip malls sprawl into the desert, two unlicensed private investigators
0:37.1	scrape by on whatever small cases come their way. But when a teenage girl pleads for them to take
0:42.5	the strangest case of their career, the boy who came back is not the boy who left. The boy in my
0:49.1	house is not my brother. This unlikely pair, with no resources and no backup, will follow a trail
0:55.9	of seemingly unconnected cases, which will lead them to a ransom, a murder, a mysterious wellness
1:02.0	center, and a conspiracy that might go all the way to the governor. It's important to catch small
1:06.8	fires early. They don't stay small for long. Starring Molly Quinn, Lucius Strust and T.L. Thompson,
1:13.7	and featuring Jason Segal, Janet Varnie, James Urbaniac, Cecil Baldwin, Jessica Nicole,
1:19.7	Mara Wilson, and more. Nightvail presents Unlicensed by Joseph Finck and Jeffrey Kramer,
1:26.6	coming to Audible November 10.
1:34.6	We were wrong about the murder, about everything. We were all wrong.
1:38.4	This show will be debuting on Audible on November 10th. Yes, Audible is behind a paywall.
1:47.7	But the good news is that the entire show is dropping all at once, and Audible has a free trial.
1:53.2	So, if you want, you can join up, listen, and cancel. But I will say, I have been listening to Audible
2:00.8	originals for the last couple years, and there is a wealth of really good stuff on there that I
2:05.7	will be recommending in the coming weeks for those of you who want to keep exploring what's on there.
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