The Cassette Key

A brass cassette with a key on a wire surfaces at a Silves mercearia — a cozy historical sleep story from Portugal, the year 2000.

The Archivist of Silves is a cozy historical fiction audiobook series set in the municipal archive of a small town in the Portuguese Algarve. Henrike Steinhoff came for the records and stayed for the town — and she has a memory for things that don’t quite add up: a gap in a file, a name that changes spelling, a story everyone tells the same way.