A Talent for Disappearing
Some secrets are worth more then a lifetime of lies.By Margot Thornbury
Length6h 33m
About this audiobook
Frances Wren has spent forty years reading rooms — the lie beneath the smile, the grief beneath the toast — and two years learning that the gift is also her loneliness. A wedding on Lake Como, in a borrowed castello above the water, promises three quiet days as nobody's problem but her own.
Then the family's charming patriarch is found at the foot of the wine-cellar stairs, his reading glasses folded neatly in his pocket, the glasses he could never have managed without in the dark. An accident, the doctor says. The family closes over the grief, and the wedding goes on.
But Frances has seen the one small thing that does not fit, and beneath the lemon trees and the candlelight, someone at the celebration has arranged a perfect ending, and is not finished yet.
A warm, atmospheric vacation mystery, and the first Frances Wren novel.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length6 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
23Chapter Twenty-Two: What the Bergs Lost
2Chapter One: The Eleventh Hairpin
24Chapter Twenty-Three: Over Wine
3Chapter Two: Old Friends
25Chapter Twenty-Four: Something Moved
4Chapter Three: The Other Guests
26Chapter Twenty-Five: Harriet
5Chapter Four: The Welcome Dinner
27Chapter Twenty-Six: Maresciallo Ferrante
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6Chapter Five: The Cellar Stairs
28Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Bought Woman
7Chapter Six: The Glasses
29Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Architect
8Chapter Seven: No One to Tell
30Chapter Twenty-Nine: Daniele’s Debts
9Chapter Eight: Recruiting Matteo
31Chapter Thirty: Marrying In
10Chapter Nine: Small Talk as a Weapon
32Chapter Thirty-One: The Case Against Him
11Chapter Ten: Below Stairs
33Chapter Thirty-Two: The Crack
12Chapter Eleven: The Bergs
34Chapter Thirty-Three: What Renata Built
13Chapter Twelve: Too Many Lies
35Chapter Thirty-Four: Shielding
14Chapter Thirteen: What the Watching Cost
36Chapter Thirty-Five: The Quietest Guest
15Chapter Fourteen: The Lake
37Chapter Thirty-Six: The Alibi That Isn’t
16Chapter Fifteen: The Foundation
38Chapter Thirty-Seven: Dressing for a Wedding
17Chapter Sixteen: The Loudest Mourner
39Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Ceremony
18Chapter Seventeen: Renata’s Fingerprints
40Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Reception
19Chapter Eighteen: The Rehearsal
41Chapter Forty: The Tell
20Chapter Nineteen: Marco
42Chapter Forty-One: The Terrace
21Chapter Twenty: Not an Accident
43Chapter Forty-Two: The Lake Below
22Chapter Twenty-One: A Threat in the Building
44Outro
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