Old Broadbrim on the Stage

A Quaker detective with a razor-sharp mind. A woman with a gun and no mercy. One stolen child—and a stage full of shadows.

Josiah Broadbrim is not a man easily rattled. He has walked into danger more times than most men have walked into churches, and he has always walked back out. But when a desperate mother calls him about her missing infant, he finds himself lured into a trap before the case even begins—by a veiled woman with a cocked revolver and a vendetta older than the crime.

The child is gone. The trail points toward the theater world Broadbrim never inhabits. And somewhere behind the footlights, a woman scorned is pulling every string.

As Broadbrim digs deeper, he confronts a conspiracy that stretches from a Riverdale nursery to a Manhattan stage—where the real performance is deception, and the performers have no intention of taking a bow. Every clue leads him closer to a female fiend who knows how to wear a dozen faces and disappear behind each one.

He trusts his instincts. He trusts his nerve. He even trusts the evidence a single torn leaf left behind.

But trust is a dangerous thing when the villain knows exactly who you are—and has been waiting for you from the start.

Can the Quaker detective find the child before the curtain falls for good?