Found in the River

A detective who sees everything. A woman who hides her face behind grief. A missing girl who may never have left willingly.

Old Broadbrim has built his reputation on reading people the way other men read newspapers—quickly, completely, and between the lines. When he slips into a Harlem mansion through a dumb-waiter and watches a beautiful blonde woman perform sorrow like a stage actress, he knows something is rotten at the heart of this household.

A young woman named Ruth Moore has vanished. Her guardian, Bernard Wormser, believes she ran off with his cousin. The note proves it. The guilt is obvious.

Old Broadbrim believes none of it.

He has already pulled Ruth's body from the river once. He knows she didn't leave that house of her own free will. And he knows the blonde beauty weeping at Bernard's shoulder is the one who arranged it.

But suspicion isn't proof. And the conspirators—a scheming woman with expensive tastes and a partner who can wear any man's face—are two moves ahead.

As the trap tightens around an innocent man and a young woman's life hangs in the balance, Old Broadbrim works his way deeper into a web of forged letters, false identities, and cold-blooded greed.

He has seen worse plots. He has broken them all.

Can he untangle this one before Ruth Moore pays with her life—and Bernard Wormser is destroyed by a lie?