Old Broadbrim Fighting Western Desperadoes

A Quaker detective with ice in his veins and justice in his blood. A frontier territory where killers run free—and the law looks the other way. One man willing to walk straight into the fire.

Josiah Broadbrim has seen his share of dark places, but nothing like the Mississippi bottoms of Iowa, where a gang of outlaws rules through fear, murder, and bought silence. When two men are butchered in their beds—an old farmer and his son-in-law, left hacked apart on a frozen doorstep—Broadbrim takes the case knowing full well the odds are stacked against him.

He rides into a county where perjured witnesses swear by the guilty, where magistrates protect the wicked, and where the men he hunts have already killed twice without consequence. Two Rideout brothers sit in jail, grinning at their own invincibility. A third killer, Thomas Browne, has vanished into the river bottoms like smoke.

Broadbrim goes undercover. He trades his Quaker dignity for a criminal's swagger, walks into outlaw dens, and earns the confidence of men who would gut him where he stands if they ever learned his name.

The gang is larger than anyone suspects. The corruption runs deeper than the law will admit.

And somewhere along the dark Mississippi, Browne is waiting—armed, dangerous, and ready.

Can Broadbrim bring three killers to justice in a land where justice itself has already been murdered?