The House of Seven Clocks

About this book

On the night of his seventieth birthday, Boon Teik Seng walked through his grand Peranakan mansion in George Town, stopped every clock in the house with his own two hands, and vanished. No note. No body. The front door barred from the inside. For forty years, nobody wound the clocks. Now Kenanga House is to become a museum, and clock restorer Iris Lim has been hired to make it tick again. Hidden inside each silent clock is a secret someone meant to be found: a pawn ticket, an unsent letter, a gambling debt marked settled, and a key that fits no door. Seven clocks. Seven stopped times. One message, forty years old, waiting for someone patient enough to read it.