THE SILENCE IN THE BELL TOWER
Mystery & Suspense NovelBy Jason C. Turner
Length3h 20m
About this audiobook
Some silences do not stay buried. They wait for someone stubborn enough to dig.
Sabine Okafor swore she would never come back to Alderford. She built an entire career asking other people’s hard questions specifically so she would never have to answer her own, and Alderford is nothing but hard questions: the brother she buried at eleven years old, the mother who taught her that some things are better left as decoration, and the shuttered prep school on the hill that everyone in town has spent thirty years learning not to look at directly.
When her investigative podcast, Records Unsealed, lands what should be an easy assignment, covering the school’s glossy reopening under new owner Julian Thorne, Sabine tells herself it is just a job. She does not tell her producer the real reason she said yes so fast. She barely admits it to herself: that bell tower has haunted the edges of her childhood since before she had words for what haunting meant.
The deeper she digs, the less this feels like a puff piece and the more it feels like something has been waiting thirty years for someone to finally ask the right question. A girl named Wren Castellan died on that tower staircase the same year the school quietly closed its doors, and everyone who might know why has spent three decades agreeing, without ever quite saying so aloud, that the truth was more comfortable left buried.
Sabine is not the only one who remembers. Something in that tower remembers too, and it is not interested in being politely managed for one more reopening gala.
As Sabine pulls one thread after another, tying Wren’s death to a donor with everything to lose, a family that has spent a generation protecting its name, and a silence that runs closer to her own family than she ever wanted to admit, the past stops staying in the past. The closer she gets to the truth, the more Alderford closes ranks around her, and the more certain she becomes that Wren Castellan is not haunting this school to frighten it. She is haunting it because she was never allowed to finish what she started.
THE SILENCE IN THE BELL TOWER is a gothic mystery about the stories small towns agree not to tell, the family silences that outlive the people who kept them, and the particular courage it takes to ask a question everyone else learned to leave alone. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric ghost stories grounded in real consequence, cold cases that implicate the powerful, and heroines who would rather chase an uncomfortable truth than accept a comfortable lie.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Horror, Romance
Length3 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
8Chapter Six
2Acknowledgements
9Chapter Seven
3Chapter One
10Chapter Eight
4Chapter Two
11Chapter Nine
5Chapter Three
12Chapter Ten
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6Chapter Four
13Chapter Eleven
7Chapter Five
14Chapter Twelve
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