Curly Keene's Dash

A drifting boat. A murdered woman. A secret worth killing for.

Curly Keene is a man who notices things. The wrong details, at the wrong hours, in the wrong places. So when a empty rowboat slips silently under a Newark bridge at two in the morning—and a wild-eyed stranger chases it through the moonlight like a man chasing his own guilt—Curly files it away the way he files everything. Precisely. Permanently.

By morning, a woman is dead.

Madge Talford, ferry-woman and recluse, has been beaten to death on her own riverbank. The authorities are satisfied they have their man—a cheerful vagabond with too much cash and too little guilt. But Curly sees what they don't. The real killer is still out there, and he has powerful friends. Powerful enough to reshape a dead woman's past, bury a secret will, and destroy anyone who comes too close to the truth.

Because Madge was no ordinary victim. She carried proof that one of the wealthiest families in New York has been built on a lie. Land, inheritance, and a fortune that should never have belonged to the people who hold it. Now she's gone, and the document she guarded for fifteen years has vanished with her boat.

Curly knows the killer's face. He also knows that man knows his.

Can he unravel the river's secret before the most dangerous money in New Jersey buries it—and him—forever?