Weather Glass

Twenty years after a ferry went down off Greyhaven, the island still lives by the official story: bad weather, a fatal navigational error, twelve lives lost. Mara Venn has spent years trying to escape the other story-the one that made her father a liar and drove her away. When Mara returns to sell his shuttered instrument workshop, she finds a marine barometer hidden inside a wall. Its frozen reading does not match the harbour record from the night of the Bellwether disaster. Beneath its brass rim, a scratched number points toward a buoy that should never have moved. The discovery draws Mara into an investigation where every measurement has a human cost. A retired meteorologist remembers an order she was afraid to challenge. A boatman who lost his brother has secrets of his own. The Harbour Trust is racing to approve a new breakwater built on the same disputed coordinates-and someone is willing to steal, burn, and sabotage the evidence before the next east wind arrives. Across five storm-bound days, Mara must restore more than a damaged instrument. To expose what happened in 1984, she will have to separate proof from rumour, reckon with the father she misjudged, and stop Greyhaven from repeating the choices that wrecked the Bellwether. The Weather Glass is an atmospheric British coastal mystery about buried evidence, community silence, and the dangerous distance between a true reading and the story powerful people need it to tell.