Dead Branches
Wren Mallory Genealogy Mystery Book OneBy Don Adams
Length9h 37m
About this audiobook
The DNA doesn't lie. But the family does.
Wren Mallory has spent years untangling other people's bloodlines — matching centimorgans, tracing surnames through crumbling county records, building family trees for strangers who want to know where they came from. She's good at it. Methodical. Quiet. She prefers the data to the people.
But when a woman named Patrice Ohlendorf hires Wren to trace her adopted mother's birth family, the results point straight to Harlow's most powerful dynasty — the Voss family, whose name is on half the buildings in town. Two days after Wren delivers her findings, Patrice is found dead in a library parking lot.
Then a second DNA match turns up dead on a county road.
Now Wren isn't just following a paper trail. She's following bodies.
In a small Midwestern town where everyone knows whose grandfather owned whose land, the past is never past. It's just misfiled.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (18)
Includes Goodreads
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One: Harlow, Indiana — March
2Chapter Two: Tuesday
3Chapter Three: Thursday, 10 AM
4Chapter Four: Saturday Morning
5Chapter Five: Three Weeks Later
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6Chapter Six: Thursday, 7:14 AM
7Chapter Seven: Friday — Tuesday
8Chapter Eight: Wednesday, 10:17 AM
9Chapter Nine: Wednesday Evening — Three Weeks Later
10Chapter Ten: Thursday, 8:03 AM
11Chapter Eleven: Thursday Evening — Tuesday
12Chapter Twelve: Monday — Thursday
13Chapter Thirteen: Monday
14Chapter Fourteen: Tuesday, 5:04 PM
15Chapter Fifteen: Wednesday — Friday
16Chapter Sixteen: Saturday, Founders’ Day
17Chapter Seventeen: Tuesday — Wednesday
18Chapter Eighteen: Thursday — Friday
19Chapter Nineteen: Saturday — Sunday, 3 AM
20Chapter Twenty: Tuesday Evening
21Chapter Twenty-One: Wednesday — Friday
22Chapter Twenty-Two: Saturday
23Chapter Twenty-Three: Monday
24Chapter Twenty-Four: Tuesday
25Chapter Twenty-Five: Thursday, 3 AM
26Chapter Twenty-Six: Friday
27Chapter Twenty-Seven: Saturday
28Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sunday
29Chapter Twenty-Nine: Sunday, continued
30Chapter Thirty: Tuesday — Thursday
31Chapter Thirty-One: The Eleven Days
32Chapter Thirty-Two: After
33Epilogue: Harlow, Indiana — May
34A Small Favour
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