Length5h 55m
About this audiobook
Nothing ever happens in Steadfast, Kansas. Then they took the church bell down for restoration — and found a man walled up behind it who’d been missing since 1963.
For sixty-three years, the town has told one story about Walter Brandt: that the church treasurer stole the building fund and ran. His name was a cautionary tale. His son grew up flinching at it. And the man who paid the missing money back became the most honored citizen the county ever had.
Then the crane lifts the bell, and the story comes apart in a single afternoon.
Maggie Keller is a Lutheran pastor’s wife, fifty years married, emerita in everything but the telephone. She has poured coffee at every funeral, wedding, and church supper in Bremer County since Eisenhower, and she knows things — not detective things; kitchen things. What a returned dish means by whether it comes back washed. Which silences at a quilt frame are full. Who is not eating.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length5 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
18Chapter Seventeen
2Chapter One
19Chapter Eighteen
3Chapter Two
20Chapter Nineteen
4Chapter Three
21Chapter Twenty
5Chapter Four
22Chapter Twenty-One
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6Chapter Five
23Chapter Twenty-Two
7Chapter Six
24Chapter Twenty-Three
8Chapter Seven
25Chapter Twenty-Four
9Chapter Eight
26Chapter Twenty-Five
10Chapter Nine
27Chapter Twenty-Six
11Chapter Ten
28Chapter Twenty-Seven
12Chapter Eleven
29Chapter Twenty-Eight
13Chapter Twelve
30Chapter Twenty-Nine
14Chapter Thirteen
31Chapter Thirty
15Chapter Fourteen
32From Maggie’s Kitchen
16Chapter Fifteen
33Coming Next in the Padded Pew Mysteries
17Chapter Sixteen
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