A temple bell rings at midnight, but the gate is locked, the rope is tied high and nobody is inside.
After the mysteries of the vanishing map and the moon fort, Tara, Kabir, Meera, Arjun and Isha are drawn into a new case at Suryagarh's old temple. The bell has cracked, a beloved Bird Lamp has gone missing and a strange note points toward seven symbols: seed, lamp, hand, river, wheel, bird and door.
The clues lead the Bharat Quest Club from the temple floor to potter's lane, from a hidden schoolroom to a forgotten petition and from one frightened boy's midnight trick to a much older attempt to erase women who learned to read when the town thought they should remain silent.
Warm, suspenseful and full of clue-solving adventure, The Temple Bell That Rang at Midnight is a middle-grade mystery about friendship, courage, community memory and the power of names and marks that finally get read aloud.