Beneath the Record · A Historical Mystery · Available Now
Four Minutes West
History records the surface. These stories explore what may have happened beneath it.
London, 1761. A few minutes can mean the difference between knowing where you are and being dangerously lost.
When Thomas discovers that a copied record no longer agrees with the figures before him, an ordinary day's work becomes a question he cannot put aside. In a city of uncertain loyalties and guarded secrets, finding out who changed the record may be as difficult as deciding whom to trust.
Against the backdrop of the longitude problem and John Harrison's remarkable chronometer, Four Minutes West follows the human choices that history's official accounts rarely preserve.
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A mystery beneath the record
For readers who enjoy historical puzzles with genuine stakes, richly observed settings, and characters whose integrity matters as much as their ingenuity.
The Beneath the Record series
History gives us dates, names, and surviving evidence. These novels enter the spaces between them, imagining the courage, doubt, and determination of the people who lived there.
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