The Thirteen cover art

The Thirteen

 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.

The Thirteen

By: Susie Moloney
Narrated by: Tess Malis Kincaid
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 £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

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

The Witches of Eastwick meets Desperate Housewives in Susie Moloney's The Thirteen, a Globe and Mail Best Book.

Haven Woods is suburban heaven, a great place to raise a family. It's close to the city, quiet, with great schools and its own hospital right up the road. Property values are climbing. The streets are clean, people keep their yards really nice. It's fairly pet-friendly, though barking dogs are not welcomed. The crime rate is practically non-existent, unless you count the odd human sacrifice, dismemberment, animal attack, demon rape and blood atonement.

When Paula Wittmore goes home to Haven Woods to care for a suddenly ailing mother, she brings her daughter and a pile of emotional baggage. She also brings the last chance for twelve of her mother's closest frenemies, who like to keep their numbers at thirteen. And her daughter, young, innocent, is a worthy gift to the darkness.A circle of friends will support you through bad times. A circle of witches can drag you through hell.

©1995, 2013 Susie Maloney (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Family Life Genre Fiction Fiction Witchcraft Magic Magic Users

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Songs in Ordinary Time cover art
Jaguar cover art
And Then She Was Gone cover art
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty cover art
To Hell in a Handbasket cover art
AFRAID - Tidbits of the Macabre cover art
My Own Miraculous cover art
Marrow cover art
Certain Dark Things cover art
The Tea Party cover art
What Remains True cover art
That Old Witch! cover art
The One I Left Behind cover art
The Faithful cover art
These Things Hidden cover art
The Complete Emily Bernal Trilogy cover art

Editor reviews

Suburban housewives may have a reputation for ruthlessness, but renowned Canadian horror author Susie Moloney's The Thirteen makes Stepford Wives-style collusion even creepier with the addition of witchcraft. Stage and screen actress Tess Malis Kincaid brings an ominous tension to her reading, her deep and expressive voice compelling listeners as she tells the story of Paula Wittmore, an ex-strip club waitress who returns to quiet, peaceful Haven Woods to tend to her ailing mother. But it turns out her mother has a dark secret: namely, her tight circle of female friends, who like to keep their number at 13. Genuinely chilling, The Thirteen will make listeners look twice at their neighbors.
All stars
Most relevant
This reminded me of "The Night Strangers" by C Bohjalian in that there were a whole load of female characters in a town, and they seemed to have a lot of power over the whole community.

A single mum and her daughter go back to their hometown to visit the ailing gran. A local haunted house and strange behaviour make them realise all is not right back home.

Don't Mess with the Scary Ladies!

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