Length4h 25m
About this audiobook
In tenth-century Transoxiana, three young people disappear and an investigator known as the Master of Traces is called to follow what their abductors have left behind: a cut tether, the provenance of a horse, a keeper’s memory, an unusual payment, and a familiar hand upon a document.
His pursuit carries him from the markets and remount stations of Chāch into mountain passes and the Qarluq borderlands, through a world where merchants, officials, soldiers and local rulers each possess only part of the truth. The Master of Traces is a literary historical mystery set in medieval Central Asia—a story of evidence, authority, faith and the fragile marks by which the truth can still be recovered.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length4 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Act I — The Horses with Many Histories
2Act II — The Wrapped Bell
3Act III — The Road Beneath the Amān
4Act IV — The Pen Beyond the Road
5Act V — The Price of Protection
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6Act VI — The Woman in the Lower Paragraph
7Act VII — The Road That Spoke
8Act VIII — A Name Behind the Screen
9Act IX — The Returning Stroke
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