The Folly
Written by Gemma Amor
Narrated by Emma Powell
4/5
()
About this audiobook
An ex-con, wrongly convicted of his wife’s murder and subsequently acquitted, and his daughter move into an abandoned decorative folly on the cornish coastline to escape their past, but a stranger bearing secrets—and an important message—soon catches up with them.
Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother, and has spent the last six years campaigning for his release from prison. After a retrial, a fresh jury acquits him, and he is set free into an uncertain world. A pandemic is sweeping across the nation, Morgan is broke, and both of them have the heavy stench of a highly publicized trial. Both need a change of scene, as Morgan can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by her Mother’s blood after she fell down the stairs - the accident her father was wrongly accused of orchestrating. Or was he?
Salvation comes in the form of a tall, dark and somewhat notorious decorative granite tower on the Cornish coastline known only as ‘The Folly’. The owner is used to rehabilitating ex-cons, and offers them new life, in exchange for taking care of The Folly. It’s an offer that is too good to refuse.
At first, the Folly is idyllic, but soon a stranger arrives who seems obsessed with Morgan’s dead mother. The stranger acts like her mother, talks like her mother, and wears her dead mother’s clothes. It quickly becomes apparent that he has a message, but with each new encounter, Morgan becomes increasingly unsure as to what that message is, and worse, who it is she is dealing with, exactly: a deranged stranger hell-bent on vengeance, or her restless Mother’s spirit itself?
As a strained father and daughter become increasingly uncomfortable in the Folly, the stranger continues to haunt and taunt them. Questions pile up: who exactly is this stranger? Why must he speak, act and dress like her deceased mother? Is her father as innocent as she always thought? And, most importantly, what happened the night her mother died?
More audiobooks from Gemma Amor
Dear Laura Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Pines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Folly
Related audiobooks
The Village Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mothered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wasps in the Ice Cream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trees Swallow People Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rosie Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eynhallow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hollows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Child of Mine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Suffering Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5They Lurk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Girl Among Crows Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Cold People: and Other Fairy Tales from Nowhere Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If You See Her Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crazy Daisy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Adirondack Witch Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Let Him In Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Nightmare Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Broken Places: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Sight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Parasocial Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Waiting Out Winter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child Alone with Strangers: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Squatter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conjuring the Witch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stroke of Winter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gothic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Grows in the Dark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMidnight on Beacon Street: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5House of Bad Memories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Mystery For You
And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mother-Daughter Murder Night: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Girl, Alone (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1): 01 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifth Suspect Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5None of This is True: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Listen for the Lie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Word is Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hit and Run Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Did I Kill You?: A Thriller Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Lies in the Woods: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tell No One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If She Knew (A Kate Wise Mystery—Book 1) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silence of the Lambs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unexpected Guest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths: The Best New Original Stories of the Genre Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Woman: A Gripping Romantic Psychological Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heaven’s Crooked Finger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River We Remember: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hallowe'en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crooked House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Folly
5 ratings0 reviews