Back from the Dead

A detective who has seen everything. A crime that changes everything.

Old Ironnerve is the kind of man who reads a room before he enters it—and reads a man before he speaks. When aging banker Cyrus Butterfield arrives at his door with a story of systematic fraud bleeding the Central-Midland Bank dry, Foster takes the measure of every nervous pause, every hesitation, every carefully worded half-truth. Something about this case feels wrong before it even begins.

Then the banker turns up dead in a hired hack, a knife buried in his chest and blood soaking the cushions, and wrong becomes something far darker.

Now Foster works two crimes at once—a sixty-thousand-dollar fraud that somebody went to murderous lengths to bury, and a killing so swift and clean it suggests a practiced hand. The deeper he digs, the more the two horrors twist together, each revelation pulling another thread loose from a web of corruption that reaches far beyond one dead banker and one looted ledger.

Every disguise he wears brings him closer to the truth. Every clue tightens the knot around people who clearly have nothing to lose.

Old Ironnerve has broken harder men than these. But this enemy knows his city, knows his methods, and may already know his face.

Can the great detective untangle fraud, murder, and conspiracy before the next body is his own?