
The Ledger of Names
An Absolutely Unputdownable Psychological Thriller of Secrets and LiesBy Hana Osei-BryceLength11h 17m
About this audiobook
Forty years of verdicts. One ledger. One column no one can explain.
Oriane Sissoko is a contract archivist. Nine months, a private collection, no questions asked. The collection belongs to a late judge, Sir Alan Brundish, a man who spent four decades deciding where children went after a hearing. The family is charming. The house is underheated. The work is meticulous.
By her third month Oriane has found the ledger: a hand-kept register of hearings, names, outcomes, and a single letter against certain cases — A through K, repeated over twenty years. She traces one. Then another. Each letter maps to a judge, a social worker, or a family who took the same kind of child.
The ledger does not record decisions. It records a method.
When Oriane finishes her report she takes it to the eldest son, now a QC, and asks him what he wants done. He reads it for a full hour without changing expression. Then he makes her an offer.
A cool, precise psychological thriller about bureaucracy, memory, and the price of a permanent contract.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length11 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish