The Good Listener
An Electrifying Thriller About a Mother Who Must Trust an Anonymous Caller If She is to Find the Truth About Her Daughter
Published on 7. May 2026
336 pages
978-1-5266-9720-2 (ISBN)
Description
'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'
'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
---
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'
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
File size
0,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-9720-2 (9781526697202)
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Holly Watt
The Good Listener
An electrifying thriller about a mother who must trust an anonymous caller if she is to find the truth about her daughter
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05/2026
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A former investigative journalist, award-winning thriller writer Holly Watt now lives in Devon with her family.
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