Rebecca Courtney has narrated 18 audiobooks on Listento.it by 16 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 39 ratings. The most-rated is The Perfect Widow.
The Perfect Widow
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Louise Bridges has the perfect life. A loving husband, Patrick. Two adorable children. A comfortable home. So when PC Becca Holt arrives to break the news that Patrick has been killed in an accident, she thinks Louise’s perfect world is about to collapse around her. But Louise doesn’t react in the way Becca would expect her to on hearing of her husband’s death. And there are only three plates set out for dinner, as if Louise already knew Patrick wouldn’t be home that night.... The more Becca digs, the more secrets she uncovers in the Bridges’ marriage - and the more she wonders just how far Louise would go to get what she wants.... Is Louise a loving wife - or a cold-hearted killer?
©2019 A.M. Castle (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
The Woman in the Lake
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From the best-selling author of House of Shadows and The Phantom Tree comes a spellbinding tale of jealousy, greed, plotting and revenge - part history, part mystery - for fans of Kate Morton, Susanna Kearsley and Barbara Erskine London, 1765 Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before. Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of the lake, looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly rolls over to reveal her face, it’s clear this was not his intended victim… 250 Years Later… When a gown she stole from a historic home as a child is mysteriously returned to Fenella Brightwell, it begins to possess her in exactly the same way that it did as a girl. Soon the fragile new life Fen has created for herself away from her abusive ex-husband is threatened at its foundations by the gown’s power over her until she can't tell what is real and what is imaginary. As Fen uncovers more about the gown and Isabella’s story, she begins to see the parallels with her own life. When each piece of history is revealed, the gown - and its past - seems to possess her more and more, culminating in a dramatic revelation set to destroy her sanity.
©2019 Nicola Cornick (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers, Limited
Murder at the Book Club
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Imagine nine women meeting. Tea and cake are on the coffee table. They’ve come together to share their love of books. They are friends. They trust each other. It’s a happy gathering. What could be more harmless? Scratch the surface and look closer. One is lonely, one is desperate and one of them is a killer. When the body of a woman is discovered on a Cambridge common, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer are called to investigate. But the motive behind the crime isn’t clear...and it all leads back to a book club. As the lies, volatile friendships and tension among the group rise to the surface, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer must work out the motive and track down a cold-blooded killer. But just when they think they are on the right track, a twist in the case throws them off course.... Betsy Reavley is the best-selling author of multiple thrillers including The Optician's Wife, The Quiet Ones and Frailty. This title is an unmissable new whodunnit which will appeal to fans of authors like Cara Hunter, Rachel Abbott, Faith Martin and LJ Ross.
©2018 Betsy Reavley (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd
Goodness, Grace and Me
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When Harriet's husband quits his job she doesn't think life could get any worse...until an old enemy reappears! Julie Houston's novels are heartwarming, full of joy and completely addictive. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Katie Fforde and Jill Mansell. Harriet's old nemesis, Amanda, is back. And she's here to stay. As the wife of her husband's boss, Amanda will be accompanying Nick on his business trips. And Harriet can't help but think, how will Nick not succumb to her ruthless charms once he's in glamorous Milan? Knowing Nick is at risk of being seduced is bad enough, but when Harriet's best friend Grace falls madly in love with Sebastian, Amanda's much younger son, it can only mean trouble ahead. Determined to fight for her man, Harriet's seduction techniques go into overdrive. Unfortunately, she is hampered in her attempts by two bolshy teenagers, an increasingly eccentric mother and a job teaching cantankerous children. Can Harriet save her marriage as well as her friendship with Grace?
©2019 Julie Houston (P)2019 Head of Zeus
A Time to Change
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I would rather love passionately for an hour than benignly for a lifetime. In a house full of history and secrets, the past will not stay where it belongs.... Lou has always loved Hill House, the derelict manor on the abandoned land near her home. As a child, the tragic history of its owners, the Mandevilles, inspired her dream to become a history teacher. But in her late 20s, working in a shop to pay off student debts, life is passing her by. That changes when a family disaster sends Lou’s life into a downward spiral and she seeks comfort in the ruined corridors of Hill House. The house transforms around her, and she is transported back to Christmas 1913. Convinced she has been in an accident and is in a coma, Lou immerses herself in her Edwardian dream. With the Mandevilles oblivious to her true identity, she becomes their houseguest and befriends the eldest son, Captain Thomas Mandeville, a man she knows is destined to die in the First World War. Lou feels more at home in the past than the present, and when she realises the experience is real she sets out to do everything in her power to save her new friends. She passes between 1913 and 2013, unearthing plots of murder and blackmail, which she must stop no matter the cost. On her quest to save the Mandevilles by saving Thomas, Lou will face the hardest decision of her life. She will learn that love cannot be separated by a century. This timeslip romance is Callie Langridge’s first novel, which came about as a result of her love of writing and history.
©2017 Callie Langridge (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd
The Forgotten Child
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Eleven years ago, Holly’s brother disappeared and his girlfriend was killed. Holly has tried her best to forget the traumatic events of her past, turning her back on her crime boss father and making a new life for herself and her son away from the notorious Seaview Estate. But when she’s involved in a car accident and regains consciousness to find a strange child on the backseat, she’s drawn back into everything she’s been trying to escape from. Who is the child and where did he come from? Already struggling to deal with her volatile ex-husband, Holly now finds herself haunted by long-buried secrets too. She has spent years trying to get away from the estate, but someone will stop at nothing to get her to return. As events that began eleven years ago come to a head, Holly is forced once again to fight for her life...and her son’s.
©2019 D. E. White (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
The Fallout
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Everyone has an opinion. Everyone has a secret.
©2019 Rebecca Thornton (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Falling for Prince Charles
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Daisy Silverman has always been obsessed with His Royal Highness, Prince Charles. When the underachieving 30-something cleaning lady wins a million dollars, she follows her lifelong dream to go to London. Once there, she meets Prince Charles - the real Prince Charles. Through a series of misunderstandings, the royal family doesn't realize that Daisy's Jewish or that she's spent her life up to the elbows in the wrong kind of toilet water. By the time they do, Daisy is in love with Charles, Charles is in love with Daisy, and the queen's white gloves are off. Falling for Prince Charles is an offbeat alternate-universe romantic comedy showing the heir to the British throne in a light quite unlike any he's been seen in before.
©2015 Lauren Baratz-Logsted (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
The Roommates
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An incredible psychological thriller from the top ten Kindle best selling author Do you really know the people you live with? The dark and riveting new psychological thriller from the top 10 Kindle best-selling author of The Perfect Neighbours. Perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door. They live in your house University is supposed to be the best time of your life. But Imo’s first week is quickly going from bad to worse. You share everything A stalker is watching her flat, following her every move, and Imo suspects that her new roommates are hiding dark secrets.... But do you trust them? When one of them suddenly disappears, the trauma of Imo’s recent past comes hurtling back to haunt her. And she begins to realise just how little she knows about the people she lives with....
©2019 Rachel Sargeant (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Doughnuts and Deception
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When Julia discovers that homeless people are dying suspiciously and the police aren't investigating, she can't sit back and do nothing. She dives headfirst into the case, aided by her new Detective Inspector boyfriend, Barker. Convinced that there is a killer preying on the vulnerable residents of an old burnout warehouse, Julia must solve the mystery...but can she crack the case before more bodies turn up?
©2018 W. F. Howes Ltd; 2017 Pink Tree Publishing Limited (P)2018 Agatha Frost
If We're Not Married by Thirty
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A brilliantly funny, romantic and effervescent listen, If We're Not Married by Thirty is the irresistible new novel from the best-selling author of The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart and It Started with a Tweet. Lydia's not exactly Living Her Best Life. She never imagined she'd be here at 30 - newly single, a job that's going nowhere and her friends all winning at life when she's still barely taking part. So she jumps at the chance of a free holiday and jets off to sunny Spain. Then, out of the blue, she bumps into her childhood friend, the handsome and charming Danny Whittaker. She's always had a crush on him, and they soon enter into a passionate holiday romance. But this relationship could be more than just a fling. Years ago they made a pact that if they were still single when they turned 30 they would get married. But no one really follows through on these pacts...right? Could Lydia's backup man really be her happy ever after?
©2018 Anna Bell (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
The Girls from See Saw Lane
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Dottie and Mary forged a friendship over a bag of penny sweets when they were eight years old. They've shared everything together since then. Now, at seventeen, they're both shopgirls working at Woolworths. As they go out in the world in pursuit of love and happiness and life becomes more complicated, the simplicity of their childhood dissolves. The heady excitement of first love will consume them both, but the pain of unintentional betrayal will test their friendship.
©2015 Sandy Taylor (P)2016 W F Howes Ltd
Counting Chimneys
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Dottie Perks has forged a new life for herself in London, with a new job and a loving boyfriend. She's safe, happy and loved. What more could she ask for? But when Dottie visits her home in Brighton, the last person she expects to see is her first love, Ralph Bennett. As old feelings come rushing to the surface, Dottie struggles to deny the strong chemistry between them. She can't throw away everything to be with Ralph...can she?
©2016 Sandy Taylor (P)2016 W.F. Howes Ltd
Natural History
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A daring and original new novel from one of sci-fi’s most provocative voices, Natural History is a stunning work of bold ideas, unforgettable characters, and epic adventure as one woman seeks to explore what may be the greatest mystery of all... Imagine a world... Half-human, half-machine, Voyager Isol was as beautiful as a coiled scorpion–and just as dangerous. Her claim that she’d found a distant but habitable earthlike planet was welcome news to the rest of the Forged. But it could mean the end of what was left of the humanity who’d created and once enslaved them. Imagine a fate... It was on behalf of the “unevolved” humans that Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archaeologist and historian of Earth’s lost worlds, was chosen by the Gaiasol military authority to uncover the truth about this second “earth.” And her voyage, traveling inside the body of Isol, will take her to the center of a storm exploding across a spectrum of space and time, dimension and consciousness. Imagine the impossible... On an abandoned planet, in a wrinkle of time, Isol and Zephyr will find a gift and a curse: A power so vast that once unlocked, it will change the universe forever. With civil war looming, Zephyr’s perilous journey will lead her to a past where one civilization mysteriously vanished...and another may soon follow.
©2004 Justina Robson (P)2014 Audible Studios
Kitty and the Sky Garden Adventure
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Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline superpowers. She dreams of being like her superhero mum one day, but she's still got a lot to learn. Join Kitty and her cat crew for a series of enchanting adventures by the light of the moon. In this story, Kitty and her feline friends Pumpkin and Pixie discover a secret garden on a city rooftop, but as news of the garden spreads, not all that visit it choose to respect and care for the space. It's up to Kitty to save the garden and its beauty from those who seem intent on destroying it.
©2020 Paula Harrison (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd
Taking Control of Fibromyalgia
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Navigate your way back to health! Fibromyalgia is characterised by fatigue, muscle aches, wandering chronic pains, depression, and anxiety. It often develops slowly, usually over several years. This book will help you to understand the symptoms of fibromyalgia and provides tools you can use to feel better. Find out why it hurts! Synthesizing knowledge from fibromyalgia research, biochemistry, current pain research, neuroscience, and pain psychology, the author presents a toolbox of practical treatments that you can use at home to change pain, all without using drugs. This knowledge creates a fuller picture of fibromyalgia for you, and it demonstrates how recovery is possible. Caroline’s clinical experience, using acupuncture to treat fibromyalgia, led her to develop the new vagal toning acupressure system (VTA), which she will teach you. Fibromyalgia pain is not all in your head! If you have have spent days, weeks, or years of your life wondering what is going on in your body, this book provides essential information to understand your condition and discover what you can do now to recover naturally. Illuminating and informative, Taking Control of Fibromyalgia reveals an empowering path to restore your natural health and relieve pain. Learn how the nervous system can create pain in fibromyalgia. Find out what the latest research on fibromyalgia says about brain inflammation and what you can do about it. Discover how the new thinking in pain science can be applied to fibromyalgia using self help treatments at home. Use the full VTA Acupressure system for fibromyalgia.
©2020 Caroline Williams (P)2020 Caroline Williams
Kitty and the Tiger Treasure
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Join Kitty and her cat crew on the rooftops for a series of enchanting adventures by the light of the moon. Here, Kitty will discover that being a superhero is about more than using her special abilities - she must learn to outwit cunning villains, too. Who has stolen the precious Golden Tiger Statue? Can Kitty return it to the museum before sunrise?
©2019 Paula Harrison (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
When We Danced at the End of the Pier
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Brighton, 1930: Maureen O'Connell is a carefree girl, but war is looming, and life will never be the same again. Jack and Nelson have always been dear friends to Maureen. Despite their different backgrounds, they've seen each other through thick and thin. The candle Maureen's always held for Jack burns bright, but just as she's found love, war wrenches them apart. With Jack no longer by her side and Nelson at war, can Maureen look to a brighter future?
©2017 Sandy Taylor (P)2017 W F Howes Ltd