Paula L. Branch has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 1 author. The most-rated is The Olive Tree: Roots.
Digging in the Dirt
Summary
Digging in the Dirt is book 12 in the Amazon number one Sam Smith Mystery series. Each book in the series contains a complete story and can be listened to as a stand-alone. Someone had posted a dead rat through Jana Jakubowska’s letterbox and scrawled obscene graffiti on her garden wall. Harmless pranks or something more sinister? Her boyfriend Tom Renwick hired me to find out. During my investigation, I met Jana’s charming four-year-old daughter Krystyna, her estranged former lover Matt Taylor, and a local hoodlum called Naz. As the case unfolded, the trail led to murder...and a situation that placed Krystyna in danger. The Rat Man had revealed his ruthless streak, but surely he wouldn’t harm a child? Meanwhile, my friend and colleague Faye Collister was trying to reconcile her troubled past with her feelings for Blake the Bodyguard, a handsome hunk. Digging in the Dirt is a story of passionate love and extreme hate.
©2017 Hannah Howe (P)2020 Hannah Howe
The Olive Tree: Roots
Summary
The Olive Tree - A Spanish Civil War Saga Set between April 1937 and December 1938, The Olive Tree is a mini-series of five novellas based on true events. The stories in The Olive Tree - Roots, Branches, Leaves, Fruit, and Flowers chronicle the lives of Heini Hopkins, a young nurse from an impoverished part of South Wales, and Naomi Parker, a wealthy author from a privileged background. In Roots, Heini is home in Wales nursing her sick mother while Naomi is attending launch parties for her latest novel. The civil war in Spain seems a world away, until the fascists bomb and destroy Guernica, murdering hundreds of men, women, and children. Heini’s boyfriend, Deiniol Price, a coal miner, feels he must rally to the Spanish Republic’s cause and volunteer for the International Brigades while Naomi’s paramour, Count Nicolas Esteban, a pilot, dreams of glory, fighting for the fascists. Should the women leave the safety of Wales for the bloody battlefields of Spain? And if they decide to follow their men, what fate awaits them? Please note: Each story contains approximately 15,000 words.
©2020 Hannah Howe (P)2021 Hannah Howe