Elias Thorne
Owner of The Curiosity Nook
"I have a complicated relationship with paper."
Bookish archivist. Notices what others overlook in margins, bindings, and official stories.
Characters
People You May Meet in Town
Card wall, not case files. No individual spoiler pages — just enough to recognize a face across the fog.
Main cast
Silas Kane
Chief of Police
"A truth that cannot stand in daylight is not finished."
Steady, observant, and allergic to convenient records. Knows the harbor — and when to read it again.
Tilly Finch
Owner of The Perilous Muffin
"The tin is not municipal. The results often are."
Keeper of the Lost-and-Found Tin. Bakes, listens, and solves small mysteries between muffins.
Lord Byron
Head of Security, The Curiosity Nook
"Do not feed him."
Works regular hours. Meows in paragraphs.
Familiar faces
Sgt. Miller
Fog Harbor PD
Coffee-powered. Keeps meticulous crime scene models and a French mantel clock on time.
Dr. Anya Sharma
County Medical Examiner
Clinical precision. County M.E. with a taste for disco in the autopsy suite.
Henry Bishop
Retired shipwright
Quiet steadiness when the town needs a wrench, not a theory.
Marge
The Salty Spoon Diner
Red vinyl booths and a coffee pot that knows everyone's business.
Robert Ashby
Coyle's Horology
Horologist for when clocks, springs, or time errors matter.