Length10h 20m
About this audiobook
Arthur Cross spent thirty years in the Norfolk Record Office. He knew every archive, every misfiled box, every deliberate gap in the collection. When he retired, he told his family he was working on a small local history project.
He was not.
When he dies, his granddaughter Nell inherits a journal she cannot read. The cipher hidden in its pages is built around the one thing she ever walked away from: her unfinished PhD on the Templar order, abandoned eleven years ago.
Arthur built the key from her own work. He always believed she'd come back to it.
Now she has to.
The treasure King John supposedly lost on a tidal crossing in 1216 was never lost. It was hidden. It has been guarded ever since. And the people still guarding it know exactly how close Nell is getting.
For fans of Anthony Horowitz and C.J. Sansom, with the warmth of Richard Osman and considerably higher stakes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Historical Fiction
Length10 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title
2Chapter 1 The Accident
3Chapter 2 The Journal
4Chapter 3 The Watcher
5Chapter 4 Old Flames
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6Chapter 5 The Cipher
7Chapter 6 The Necessary Action
8Chapter 7 What Is Kept
9Chapter 7 DS Hartley I
10Chapter 9 Binham
11Chapter 10 The Watcher II
12Chapter 11 The PhD
13Chapter 12 The Archive
14Chapter 13 Tom's First Find
15Chapter 14Castle Rising
16Chapter 15 Brotherhood I: The Obituary
17Chapter 16 Running
18Chapter 17 The Accepted Thesis
19Chapter 18 Companies House
20Chapter 19 The Watcher III
21Chapter 20 The Meeting
22Chapter 21 The Transit Point
23Chapter 22 Brotherhood II: Diana's Doubt
24Chapter 23 The Offer
25Chapter 24 Hartley II: The Flag
26Chapter 25 Helen's Studio
27Chapter 26 Cromer
28Chapter 27 Recalled
29Chapter 28 The Watcher IV
30Chapter 29 The Full Picture
31Chapter 30 Brotherhood III: Diana's Last Dinner
32Chapter 31 The Dinner Invitation
33Chapter 32 Dead Man's Switch
34Chapter 33 Dan Returns
35Chapter 34 The Excavation Permit
36Chapter 35 The Three-Way Call
37Chapter 36 Brotherhood IV: Marcus Reads Again
38Chapter 37 The Dinner
39Chapter 38 The Watcher V
40Chapter 39 The Car Park
41Chapter 40 The Second Journal
42Chapter 41 What the Journal Says
43Chapter 42 Sir Edmund's Chapter
44Chapter 43 Morrison
45Chapter 44 Brotherhood V: Diana Calls Hartley
46Chapter 45 Marcus Decides
47Chapter 46 The Plans
48Chapter 47 Slade Comes In
49Chapter 48 Hartley III: The Complaint
50Chapter 49 The Thesis Revisited
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