The Clockmaker's Last Request -

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Biographie:
Maisie Thorne is a mid-career author known for her charming cozy mysteries with a touch of historical intrigue. Her novels are celebrated for their strong female leads, atmospheric settings, and intricate plots. Before turning to fiction writing, Maisie worked as a history teacher and continues to draw inspiration from her love of the past and her deep appreciation for small-town life. She lives in Willowbrook, Vermont, with her watchmaker husband, their opinionated tabby cat Thistle, and a vast collection of antique clocks. Her previous novel, A Stitch in Crime, follows seaside embroiderer Marnie Swift as she unravels the chilling secrets hidden in an antique quilt mysteriously linked to unsolved disappearances in the town's haunted past. Her next book, Murder in the Moonflower Garden, introduces herbalist Addie Green, who must decode a cryptic will and uncover the truth behind her mentor's suspicious death in a garden teeming with deadly secrets and botanical intrigue. Whether set in sleepy villages or shadowed flowerbeds, Maisie's novels reveal that no town is too quaint for a good mystery-and no heroine too ordinary to solve it....

Sommaire:
Time hides all secrets-until someone dares to unravel them. When Nora Benton receives a letter informing her of a mysterious inheritance-a crumbling clock shop in the forgotten town of Elder Hollow-she sees it as the perfect escape from her stagnant life. But the faded sign above Time's Whisper, the shop her estranged grandmother once ran, hides more than dust and forgotten timepieces. Within the hollow tick of a grandfather clock lies a hidden drawer containing cryptic blueprints, coded messages, and letters steeped in forbidden love and whispered danger. As Nora delves into the shop's secrets, she finds herself at the heart of a centuries-old conspiracy buried beneath the quaint charm of Elder Hollow. Every ticking second draws her deeper into a mystery of secret societies, shadowy tunnels, and a powerful artifact that some would kill to possess. With the town's darkest truths pressing in and her own past catching up, Nora must decide how far she's willing to go to uncover the truth-and if time is on her side. Atmospheric, intricate, and richly layered, The Clockmaker's Last Request is a gothic mystery where the past refuses to stay silent-and the future depends on decoding it....