Old Broadbrim in a Race for Life

A detective with thirteen days to save an innocent man. A killer hiding behind a woman's tears. One relentless Quaker who never stops.

Josiah "Old Broadbrim" Broadbrim has seen plenty of guilty men. Henry Rogers doesn't look like one of them.

When beautiful Jessie Falconer walks into his Broadway office, she carries a conviction most would call madness—that the man who confessed to murdering her father, who bears the blood on his hands and the weapon in his pocket, is innocent. And the clock is already running.

Old Broadbrim believes her.

But believing and proving are two very different things. With thirteen days before the gallows claim an innocent man, the Quaker detective follows a shadowy thread of jewels, lies, and false whiskers into the darkest corners of the city. Someone laid out five hundred thousand dollars' worth of diamonds on a table in Harlem. Someone hired a slungshot to crack his skull. Someone is willing to let a good man hang rather than face justice herself.

Every time Old Broadbrim gets close, the trail erupts into violence. He is shot off a carriage. Thrown into a well. Left for dead in the snow.

He keeps coming.

Because the real killer is still out there, and Rogers is running out of tomorrows.

Can Old Broadbrim unmask a murderer who hides behind an innocent man's silence—before the rope drops?