Length6h 46m
About this audiobook
After her husband's sudden death, Margot rents out the spare room at 4 Ash Lane to a quiet, polite stranger named Elise. The extra income helps. The company helps more.
Elise is the perfect lodger. She keeps to herself, pays on time, and never asks difficult questions. But Margot starts noticing things. A locked bedroom door. A dog-eared Ordnance Survey map of the local area. Conversations at the pub that the guest shouldn't be having.
The more Margot digs into Elise's past, the less anything makes sense. The guest knew things about the house before she arrived. She knew things about Cranthorpe. She knew things about the marriage.
And Margot isn't telling the whole truth either.
In this claustrophobic psychological thriller set in small-town Cambridgeshire, nothing is what it seems — and by the time you think you've worked it out, the ground shifts again.
For fans of Freida McFadden, B.A. Paris, and anyone who loves a thriller with a twist ending they never saw coming.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length6 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Listing
16Chapter 16: Two in the Morning
2Chapter 2: The Lodger
17Chapter 17: The Will
3Chapter 3: The Lock
18Chapter 18: Cambridge
4Chapter 4: Routines
19Chapter 19: The Back Gate
5Chapter 5: The Rec Ground
20Chapter 20: What Terry Knew
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6Chapter 6: The Statement
21Chapter 21: The Email
7Chapter 7: The Market
22Chapter 22: Green-Grey
8Chapter 8: The Parcel
23Chapter 23: Sara
9Chapter 9: Mara’s Room
24Chapter 24: The Bristol Property
10Chapter 10: The Map
25Chapter 25: The Photograph on the Mantelpiece
11Chapter 11: The Account
26Chapter 26: The Paramedic’s Report
12Chapter 12: What Terry Said
27Chapter 27: Four Minutes
13Chapter 13: What He Said
28Chapter 28: What Remains
14Chapter 14: The Drawer
29Chapter 29: Mara Voss
15Chapter 15: What Ros Said
30Chapter 30: The Empty Slot
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