Silent Clockmaker, The – Kobo Audiobook

Elias Thorne has spent years repairing clocks in the fog covered coastal town of Oakhaven, Oregon. At thirty two, he prefers gears to people and silence to questions, especially questions about Sarah Miller, the young woman who disappeared fifteen years earlier after Elias became the last person known to have seen her alive.

Then a stranger leaves an antique clock on his counter.

Hidden inside its base are a rusted key, an old map, and a photograph of Sarah. The clock itself has been deliberately stopped at exactly twelve minutes past four, the same time Sarah was reported missing. What appears to be an unusual repair soon becomes a message designed specifically for Elias.

Following clues concealed inside clocks, family records, abandoned structures, and the dangerous coastline surrounding Oakhaven, Elias begins uncovering memories he spent years trying to suppress. His investigation leads toward a hidden mechanical system beneath the town and a conspiracy involving respected citizens, secret money, and people willing to sacrifice the truth to protect Oakhaven’s carefully constructed history.

Detective Miller, Sarah’s older brother, has never forgiven Elias and remains convinced he knows more about the disappearance than he admits. But as the two men move closer to the truth, they discover that Sarah’s death was connected to something far larger than either imagined.

To expose what happened, Elias must finally confront his father’s role in the conspiracy, destroy the machine designed to preserve the town’s secrets, and uncover the place where Sarah has been hidden for fifteen years.

The Silent Clockmaker is an atmospheric mystery thriller about guilt, corruption, buried memory, family secrets, and a man who must finally stop protecting the past before it consumes the present.