The Salt and the Silence
Maren Hale has spent four years forgetting Coldrust Bay , the taste of salt, the scream of gulls, and the night she left without saying goodbye. But when a rain-lashed coach delive
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Historical Mystery books
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- The first 20% of every book, rounded up, so at least one chapter. Across this shelf that is about 4 chapters per book, and every book here is 20 chapters long.
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- 7 authors write them, led by Ash Corvax, Calderon Keystone and Elias Merrick. Every one opens its first chapters free.
Historical Mystery on the shelf
The Coldfield Ledger
A soft floorboard in an old church hides a tin box , and the truth it contains refuses to stay buried. When Reverend Josiah Wren pried up the board beneath the harmonium, he expect
The Frost Key
When a Swedish cartographer is found dead in his St. Petersburg study, a final letter arrives at the desk of translator Maren Halvorsen, naming her as the only person who can finis
The Marble Court
Three nights of river flooding have soaked the Royal Society's lower archives, and when investigator Severin Vale descends into the reeking vault beneath Wren's Bridge, he finds th
What the Fire Knew
Three years ago, the Milliken fire took a building, a life, and every alibi in a small town that depended on forgetting. Now an archivist with a bad right knee and a left-first ste
The Inkwell Cipher
A waterlogged parcel bearing the crimson seal of Vexley Hall arrives on postal clerk Barnaby Calloway's sorting desk, bleeding ink across the address and unleashing a chain of ridd
The Bone Catalogue
A parcel of human bones, meticulously labeled with name, date, and cause of death, arrives at the Historical Records Office on a fog-lifting Tuesday , and the most recent entry is
The Cartographer of Forgotten Hours
When a mapmaker begins charting moments the world has deliberately forgotten, she unearths a conspiracy buried beneath London's fog, and the one memory that could unravel her own i
The Forgotten Frame
A reluctant antiquarian inherits a decaying estate shrouded in fog, and a locked room hiding a secret someone will kill to keep buried. When Bartholomew Wren arrives at the crumbli
The Mercury Clerk
Seven years after she swore never to return, Rosalind Ashworth steps off the post chaise onto the wind-blasted Essex marshes to bury her father and claim an estate she despises. Th