The Woman in the Auction Lot
A Claire Malloy Mystery Horror Mystery NovelBy Bess Calder
Length9h 6m
About this audiobook
Junie Pell buys forty pounds of dead man's furniture and finds a scrapbook hidden in a walnut desk.
Sixty years of newspaper clippings about a woman who vanished from a roadside motel. Every clipping annotated. Every note in the missing woman's own handwriting.
Junie is a bookseller, not a detective. But she knows a first edition when she sees one, and she knows a lie when a family tells her one.
Her ex-husband says drop it.
The motel is still standing. The registration cards are still in the box. And one of them is dated three days after Ruth Ostergaard disappeared.
Some mysteries want to be solved. This one has been waiting to be found.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Saturday, 4 March, 9.15 a.m. — the county auction barn
3Sunday, 16 March, 8.05 a.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
4Sunday, 12 March, 8.20 a.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
5Monday, 16 March, 7.05 a.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
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6Tuesday, 16 March, 8.05 a.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
7Six
8Friday, 17 March, 8.15 a.m. — Hattie Grubb's front porch, County Road 12
9Thursday, 19 March, 2.15 p.m. — the Blue Larkspur Motel
10Friday, 5 April, 6.20 p.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
11Friday, 14 March, 8.20 a.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
12Eleven
13Sunday, 16 March, 9.05 a.m. — the Ostergaard farmhouse
14Saturday, 8 April, 6.05 a.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
15Friday, 14 July, 7.05 a.m. — the Ostergaard farmhouse stoop
16Friday, 14 July, 6.52 p.m. — Pell Books & Ephemera
17Epilogue
18About the author
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