'BRILLIANT FROM START TO FINISH' WOMAN & HOME
'HEART-STOPPING ... SUPERB' LITERARY REVIEW
'INGENIOUS... PROPULSIVE' Sarah Vaughan
'TRULY ORIGINAL' Ellery Lloyd
'ELECTRIFYING' Fiona Cummins
An anonymous call. A mother desperate for justice.
The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk.
When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating on her husband, the man who has lost yet another job, the teenager struggling at school...
And Clara is prepared for every kind of caller. Except this one.
Because the woman on the other end of the line has just told her 'my husband killed a little girl.'
And two years ago, Clara's own daughter was murdered and her killer never caught.
The police have no leads. This is Clara's only chance of justice. But when the caller is anonymous, what chance does she have of finding them?
A thriller with heart, a page-turner with depth, an unputdownable read: make Holly Watt's The Good Listener the next book you pre-order
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Readers give The Good Listener FIVE STARS:
'Read in one sitting ... I was glued to my seat'
'Smart, exciting, emotional, dark and everything you want to read in a book'
'I stayed up until nearly 2am to finish this book as it was impossible to put down'
'Edge-of-your-seat suspense from start to finish'
Genre: Mystery
'HEART-STOPPING ... SUPERB' LITERARY REVIEW
'INGENIOUS... PROPULSIVE' Sarah Vaughan
'TRULY ORIGINAL' Ellery Lloyd
'ELECTRIFYING' Fiona Cummins
An anonymous call. A mother desperate for justice.
The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk.
When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating on her husband, the man who has lost yet another job, the teenager struggling at school...
And Clara is prepared for every kind of caller. Except this one.
Because the woman on the other end of the line has just told her 'my husband killed a little girl.'
And two years ago, Clara's own daughter was murdered and her killer never caught.
The police have no leads. This is Clara's only chance of justice. But when the caller is anonymous, what chance does she have of finding them?
A thriller with heart, a page-turner with depth, an unputdownable read: make Holly Watt's The Good Listener the next book you pre-order
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Readers give The Good Listener FIVE STARS:
'Read in one sitting ... I was glued to my seat'
'Smart, exciting, emotional, dark and everything you want to read in a book'
'I stayed up until nearly 2am to finish this book as it was impossible to put down'
'Edge-of-your-seat suspense from start to finish'
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"In Holly Watt's electrifying new novel, The Good Listener, she manages the near-impossible feat of balancing a heartbreaking and original premise with edge-of-the-seat suspense. Bold in style and beautifully written, grieving mother Clara Brennan is a protagonist to root for, and this rare gem of a thriller deserves to rocket to the top of your reading list." - Fiona Cummins
"The Good Listener is a taut, elegant thriller that grips from the first page and won't let you look away. Holly Watt balances heart-pounding suspense with nuanced characterisation, giving the main character, Clara, depth beyond her tragedy. Tense, assured, and heartbreakingly human." - Paula Daly
"It's so rare to read a truly original thriller plot, but this is one. Watt's plotting is so clever that this is a book that you immediately want to reread to collect all the clever clues and misdirections. The interactions between the two women are more than a game of cat and mouse - they're almost a dance. This is the perfect book club book -- there is so much to think about that you're left dying to talk to someone about it!" - Ellery Lloyd
"That rarest of things: a brilliant book, perfectly executed. The Good Listener drew me in with pace, intrigue and emotional weight and just would not let me go. A terrific read from an author who never disappoints." - Gytha Lodge
"A fabulous premise and a thrilling, complex mystery. I was hooked from the first page." - S E Lynes
"A cut above. A poignant, intelligent and genuinely gripping thriller woven from a mother's worst nightmare and her search for the truth. Holly Watt is a brilliant writer." - Anna Mazzola
"I adore Holly Watt's storytelling. The Good Listener is an intelligent, involving novel with the pace of the most propulsive thriller, and a story that sweeps you into its emotional heart." - Charlotte Philby
"A fabulous thriller with a premise that had me hooked right from the start. In Clara, Holly has created a protagonist who is broken after facing a mother's worst nightmare but who is then given a chance to find the answer she so desperately seeks. A truly emotional, utterly gripping read - this is perfect book club material. I loved it." - Nikki Smith
"Tense, heartfelt and profoundly moving. Even murderers need Good Listeners." - Sarah Sultoon
"An ingenious hook, expertly developed and carried through in a typically propulsive, intelligent read. Watt manages to take the most disturbing of subjects and avoid making it feel exploitative or mawkish. Her love of Dartmoor - wild and secretive - shines through, even as we understand its danger, but it was the sense of past traumas impacting on the present that struck me in this cat-and-mouse read." - Sarah Vaughan
"The Good Listener is a taut, elegant thriller that grips from the first page and won't let you look away. Holly Watt balances heart-pounding suspense with nuanced characterisation, giving the main character, Clara, depth beyond her tragedy. Tense, assured, and heartbreakingly human." - Paula Daly
"It's so rare to read a truly original thriller plot, but this is one. Watt's plotting is so clever that this is a book that you immediately want to reread to collect all the clever clues and misdirections. The interactions between the two women are more than a game of cat and mouse - they're almost a dance. This is the perfect book club book -- there is so much to think about that you're left dying to talk to someone about it!" - Ellery Lloyd
"That rarest of things: a brilliant book, perfectly executed. The Good Listener drew me in with pace, intrigue and emotional weight and just would not let me go. A terrific read from an author who never disappoints." - Gytha Lodge
"A fabulous premise and a thrilling, complex mystery. I was hooked from the first page." - S E Lynes
"A cut above. A poignant, intelligent and genuinely gripping thriller woven from a mother's worst nightmare and her search for the truth. Holly Watt is a brilliant writer." - Anna Mazzola
"I adore Holly Watt's storytelling. The Good Listener is an intelligent, involving novel with the pace of the most propulsive thriller, and a story that sweeps you into its emotional heart." - Charlotte Philby
"A fabulous thriller with a premise that had me hooked right from the start. In Clara, Holly has created a protagonist who is broken after facing a mother's worst nightmare but who is then given a chance to find the answer she so desperately seeks. A truly emotional, utterly gripping read - this is perfect book club material. I loved it." - Nikki Smith
"Tense, heartfelt and profoundly moving. Even murderers need Good Listeners." - Sarah Sultoon
"An ingenious hook, expertly developed and carried through in a typically propulsive, intelligent read. Watt manages to take the most disturbing of subjects and avoid making it feel exploitative or mawkish. Her love of Dartmoor - wild and secretive - shines through, even as we understand its danger, but it was the sense of past traumas impacting on the present that struck me in this cat-and-mouse read." - Sarah Vaughan
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