The Missing Head Mystery

A detective who never loses a trail. A murderer who thinks he's covered his tracks. One night that changes everything in a quiet town that will never be the same.

Gideon Gault is a man who trusts evidence over instinct—and he's rarely wrong. When a brutal crime shatters the sleepy village of Moffatsville, Gault arrives at the scene before the magistrate has even finished forcing the door. What he finds chills even him: a miser's ransacked house, a fortune vanished, and a body hidden with terrible cunning.

But something is missing. Something that should be there and isn't.

Gault pieces together a picture of cold, calculated evil—a young man of charm and nerve who dispatched an old man for his gold, silenced a witness without hesitation, and partnered with a dangerous criminal who plays the angles like a card sharp. Every trail has been swept. Every witness conveniently removed.

Every one but one.

As Gault tightens the net, the men he hunts grow reckless, paranoid, and increasingly willing to kill again. The further he digs, the clearer it becomes that this case is something worse than murder for money. It is murder for sport.

If Gault lets the trail go cold, a killer walks free—and a dead man's secrets stay buried with him.

Can Gault close the case before the last witness disappears forever?