THE MEMORY SHE KEPT
A Psychological Thriller / Suspense novelBy Arthur Payne
Length6h 2m
About this audiobook
THE MEMORY SHE KEPT
Some truths are worth more than an inheritance. Some are worth a woman's mind.
Three years ago, Elena's mother died at the lake house on the night of October fourteenth, the one night Elena cannot remember. No matter how many hours she spends restoring other people's damaged photographs for a living, she has never been able to restore the water-stained hole in her own memory. Her hands come back clean every time she wakes from the dream. That's always been the worst part.
Now the family is back at the lake house for the reading of her mother's will and her mother has left behind one final, impossible clause. The estate won't be divided. It will go, in full, to whichever of her four children can prove the true account of what happened that night. Not a story that protects them. Not a story that serves them. The truth.
There's just one problem: Elena is the only one who was actually there. And she remembers nothing.
But the house hasn't forgotten. A smell of lavender polish that shouldn't still linger. A husband whose eyes won't quite meet hers when the subject of that night comes up. A therapist whose careful, practiced calm cracks for exactly one second too long on the phone. A sister and brother circling old wounds like they've rehearsed this fight before. As the family closes ranks around their separate versions of October fourteenth, Elena starts to suspect the real danger was never her broken memory, it's what happens when it finally comes back.
Because someone in this house already knows the truth. And they have spent three years making very sure she never finds it.
The Memory She Kept is a taut, atmospheric psychological thriller about grief, inheritance, and the dangerous cost of remembering perfect for readers of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell who love a locked-house mystery, an unreliable narrator, and a family with far too much to hide.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length6 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
24Chapter twenty three
2Chapter one
25Chapter twenty four
3Chapter two
26Chapter twenty five
4Chapter three
27Chapter twenty six
5Chapter four
28Chapter twenty seven
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6Chapter five
29Chapter twenty eight
7Chapter six
30Chapter twenty nine
8Chapter seven
31Chapter thirty
9Chapter eight
32Chapter thirty one
10Chapter nine
33Chapter thirty two
11Chapter ten
34Chapter thirty three
12Chapter eleven
35Chapter thirty four
13Chapter twelve
36Chapter thirty five
14Chapter thirteen
37Chapter thirty six
15Chapter fourteen
38Chapter thirty seven
16Chapter fifteen
39Chapter thirty eight
17Chapter sixteen
40Chapter thirty nine
18Chapter seventeen
41Chapter forty
19Chapter eighteen
42Chapter forty one
20Chapter nineteen
43Chapter forty two
21Chapter twenty
44Chapter forty three
22Chapter twenty one
45Chapter forty four
23Chapter twenty two
46Chapter forty five
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