The Bradys and Little Chin-Chin

She solved crimes in two languages. Now she's the clue they have to find.

A lady detective who speaks the language of secrets. A bay swallowed in darkness. And a trap that closes on all three.

Alice Montgomery is not a woman who waits to be rescued.

The accomplished partner of the Brady Detective Bureau, she speaks fluent Chinese, reads every character, and has cracked cases that broke lesser investigators. When Old King Brady orders her to stay behind on a howling January night, she obeys—confident the storm is the worst danger she'll face.

She's wrong.

While the Bradys drift helpless across Jamaica Bay, their motorboat rigged to explode beneath them, a smooth-talking stranger arrives at Kreizer's Hotel with a convincing lie and a waiting rowboat. Alice steps into the dark willingly. By the time the detectives haul themselves aboard a rescue tug, she is already gone—swallowed by the same criminal ring that just tried to kill her partners.

Old King Brady and Harry know the Chinese opium gang they were hunting didn't spring this trap by accident. The gang knows Alice's name, her skills, and exactly why they need her alive.

As the Bradys trace burnt huts, hidden jewels, and coded opium boxes across the islands of Jamaica Bay, the clock ticks against them.

If they don't find Alice before the gang puts her knowledge to use, they may recover everything—except the one partner they can't replace.

Can the Bradys reach Alice before the gang decides she's become a liability?