Books in Which a Phone call Changes Everything

Books in Which a Phone call Changes Everything

The telephone ringing can bring dread to many people – many people don’t like talking on the phone. Others wonder if it’s going to bring bad news or be a call from someone you don’t want to speak to. If you’re a character in a novel sometimes a phone call can lead to some very interesting plotlines!

Caller Unknown

Title says it all really. Gillian McAllister knows how to ramp up the tension from the start! A woman and her daughter go to stay in a cabin for a much needed break together. However, the next day, the mum wakes up and discovers her daughter gone. Then the phone rings….

Murder on Line One

Jeremy Vine gives us a plot with phone calls at the very heart of things. Callers into a chat show on the radio can say and do the most strangest of things. Who knows who will call and why? Well, read this and be shocked!

The Chain

Never be sitting next to Adrian McKinty when the phone rings…..in his book The Chain, the caller on the other end tells you they have taken your child and that to get them back, you have to kidnap someone else’s.

Now for some nice phonecalls!

The Phone Swap

There’s a fun romance in this book and a rom com just waiting to happen!

Sometimes, phone calls can turn out to be good! Changing your life in ways that you might not expect but in a good way.

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan

And finally – a book where a phone call or phone booth in this case includes a mysterious voice that directs the listener to the doorstep of the college boyfriend she thought she’d moved on from over six years ago.

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