Company Town cover art

Company Town

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Company Town

By: Madeline Ashby
Narrated by: Cecelia Kim
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

They call it Company Town - a city-size oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.

Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bioengineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig - making her doubly an outsider as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?

Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be - but now the danger is personal.

A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved or saving herself.

©2016 Madeline Ashby (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Genetic Engineering Hard Science Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Murder

Listeners also enjoyed...

 36 Streets cover art
Limbus, Inc. cover art
Shift cover art
The Man I Love cover art
Dome City Blues cover art
The First Assassin cover art
The Long List Anthology cover art
English Creek cover art
Everything Matters! cover art
Bookburners: Book 1 cover art
The Autumn Castle cover art
Duet cover art
White Cat cover art
The Animators cover art
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer cover art
Pretty Pretty Boys cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Some great world building by the author, a kickass protagonist in Hwa and an ending that rather lets the whole side down. It feels rushed and the way Hwa is saved and altered feels like a betrayal to her characters growth as the story progressed.

Still, I enjoyed the book. Narration was good, apart from some of the accents attempted , listened at X1.5 playback speed.

Good but the ending loses it a star.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enjoyed it just kinda felt cheated at the end didn’t feel like the payoff matched the set up. Absolutely worth a listen but not my favourite book.

You had me in the first half

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.