The Forgotten Cork-Stripping Knife

A cork-stripping knife lands at the archive with initials J.M. in the blade — a cozy historical sleep story from the Algarve, 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.