The Sounding
Some secrets are worth more than a lifetime of lies.By Margot Thornbury
Length7h 52m
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 voyage to the North Cape, under a midnight sun that never sets, is meant to be three weeks of looking at nothing harder than the light.
Then the founder of the old coastal line — the line that has never lost a passenger — is found dead in the ship's sauna. An accident, everyone agrees. The doctor signs it; the company closes over the grief.
But Frances has seen the one thing that does not belong, and when the sea gives back a second body, the accident begins to come apart. Out past the last harbour, the quietest woman aboard must decide what a thirty-year-old truth is worth — and who it will cost.
The second Frances Wren Mystery.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Intro
18Chapter Seventeen: The Time of It
2Chapter One: Bryggen
19Chapter Eighteen: Cement the Room
3Chapter Two: The Captain’s Table
20Chapter Nineteen: A Threat to Someone
4Chapter Three: The Anniversary
21Chapter Twenty: The Books
5Chapter Four: A Sounding
22Chapter Twenty-One: Too Clean
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6Chapter Five: The Cedar Room
23Chapter Twenty-Two: Lesser Guilt
7Chapter Six: No One to Tell
24Chapter Twenty-Three: The Architect
8Chapter Seven: The Manifest
25Chapter Twenty-Four: Whom She Loves
9Chapter Eight: Lofoten
26Chapter Twenty-Five: The Watch He Gave
10Chapter Nine: Off-Duty
27Chapter Twenty-Six: Knowing Isn’t Proving
11Chapter Ten: The Steward’s Station
28Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Farewell Gala
12Chapter Eleven: Those We Lost
29Chapter Twenty-Eight: Nine Forty-Eight
13Chapter Twelve: Who Built the List
30Chapter Twenty-Nine: What the Log Says
14Chapter Thirteen: Which of Them
31Chapter Thirty: The One She Lost
15Chapter Fourteen: White Night
32Chapter Thirty-One: Southward
16Chapter Fifteen: Over the Side
33Outro
17Chapter Sixteen: Alive
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