Mystery

In the damp archive of a city library, conservator Mira Calder uncovers names hidden beneath a donated volume and finds her mother’s among them. As she and a pragmatic detective unpick minutes, recordings, and a retired archivist’s confession, they face legal fights, threats, and a public hearing that forces a city to answer.

A film restorer uncovers an anonymous reel linked to a long-closed cinema and a whisper that bears her childhood nickname. As she restores the footage she must choose between bringing a town's buried dealings into light and shielding the vulnerable lives entangled in what she finds.

In Ashwell, archivist Mara Kline returns to settle her late father's papers and uncovers penciled marginalia, a child's locket and redacted municipal ledgers. Her quiet curiosity unlocks a decades-long pattern of relocated children and a town's carefully guarded omissions.

When Ivy returns to her river city, a cassette with encoded siren tones draws her into a tangled scheme to weaponize water. With a retired radio tech, a photographer friend, and clues left by a missing engineer, she unravels a developer’s plot and restores balance to Brackenford.

A young archive conservator notices names and streets vanishing from the city's records. With a courier and an elderly conservator she uncovers an official nullification program, rescues her missing mentor, and forces a civic reckoning that restores memory and responsibility.

When St. Marin’s ancient bell falls mute, clock restorer Leona Moraine follows a trail of sound through a sealed tower, a coded automaton, and a city’s forgotten charter. With a retired lighthouse keeper and a blunt electrician, she confronts a councilman’s scheme and restores a tide-tuned peal—and her city’s memory.

A young sound archivist at a community radio station receives mysterious tapes hinting at a long-vanished poet. As she follows acoustic clues through baths, theaters, and storm tanks, she confronts a powerful patron with a hidden past. With a retired engineer and a fearless intern, she turns the city into a witness.

In the coastal town of Larkspur Bay, acoustic engineer Alma Reyes hears a lullaby humming through the walls of a condemned theater. With a retired actress, a watchmaker, and a carpenter, she decodes sonic clues, exposing old corruption and stopping a demolition that would erase the town’s memory.

In the fogbound town of Saltwick, sound archivist Nora Kline follows a persistent hum to a missing mentor and a sealed secret beneath the quay. With an eccentric keeper's device and a ragged band of allies, she teases truth from the town's ledger and forces a community to remember.

When the beloved tide clock in seaside Gullhaven falls silent, eleven-year-old Nora Finch follows lavender-scented clues into old boathouses and tidal tunnels. With Mr. Reed, Aunt Sal, Keon, and her dog Tuppence, she recovers the clock’s brass heart, faces a scheming planner, and helps the town hear itself again.

A young audio conservator finds a misfiled reel that whispers of a vanished ledger and a protected scandal. Using an old resonator and stubborn friends, she teases truth from hiss, confronts powerful interests, and discovers how memory and silence shape a city.

When the festival bell fails and the town’s time chest vanishes, 10-year-old Nila follows salt-ink riddles with a stormglass lens, a magpie, and her friends. Together they outsmart a schemer, protect nesting swallows, and help Brindle Bay choose kindness over noise—uncovering promises hidden in plain sight.

In a coastal town where the bell keeps more than time, a young clockmaker discovers a pocket watch that hides speaking echoes. As a missing student's trail winds through ledgers and lantern-lit rooms, Eli must learn to listen well enough to pull secrets from metal and bring the truth into daylight.

Eleven-year-old Tessa Quill, a keen mapmaker, discovers stolen lighthouse prisms and coded chalk marks in her fogbound coastal town. With a brass spyglass, a scruffy cormorant, and an old keeper’s trust, she braves sea caves, faces a misguided inventor, and restores the beam that saves ships—and birds.

In a near-future port city, an acoustic archivist uncovers a child's voice embedded in old tapes. Her search for the truth about Project Lumen—an experiment to store memory in sound—unearths political secrets, moral debts, and a city's need to remember. A mystery told through sound and silence.