Old Broadbrim Playing a Master Stroke

A detective with a stranger's secret. A missing millionaire. And a body pulled from the river that may change everything.

Josiah Broadbrim trusts his instincts above all else.

The Quaker detective has worked every kind of case New York's shadow world can throw at him—and survived each one sharper than before. So when a chance encounter on the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise drops a disturbing confession in his lap, Broadbrim knows better than to dismiss it as coincidence.

A wealthy Iowa millionaire named Reginald Young has vanished without a trace. The last man to see him alive is now playing innocent at the Hoffman House, stammering through contradictions and reeking of guilt. And a stranger named Myendorf carries the memory of four men, a dark lantern, and a canvas-covered corpse dumped beneath an old pier in the dead of night.

Broadbrim moves fast. But so does his quarry.

As the investigation tightens around the shadowy figure known as Horace Wheatley, Broadbrim finds himself facing a conspiracy reaching deeper into New York's criminal underworld than even he anticipated. Every answer uncovers a darker question. Every lead draws him closer to a waterfront where men disappear and the river keeps its secrets.

If Broadbrim hesitates, an innocent man's death goes unanswered—and a killer slips away forever.

Can the Quaker detective untangle the mystery of Pier No. 4 before the truth sinks to the bottom of the East River?