Der Uhrmacher in der Filigree Street

His life ran like clockwork. Until he met the watchmaker.

"The Watchmaker of Filigree Street" tells a gripping, fantastical story about a mysterious watch and a spectacular yet impossible-to-solve bombing at Scotland Yard. The book takes readers on a journey through Victorian England and 19th-century Japan, opening doors to a strange and magical past.

London, October 1883. One evening, Thaniel Steepleton, a simple clerk at the Home Office, returns to his tiny London apartment. There, he finds a golden pocket watch on his pillow. It puzzles him what it could mean. Six months later, a bomb explodes in the Scotland Yard building. Steepleton is warned just in time because his watch emitted an alarm signal. Now, he sets out to find the watchmaker and discovers Keita Mori, a friendly but lonely man from Japan. As harmless as Mori seems, a chain of eerie events soon suggests that he has something to hide...