Old Broadbrim Setting a Smart Trap

A detective who sees through every disguise. A theft that hides something far worse. One family that cannot afford the truth.

Old Broadbrim knows how to read a room. Behind his clerical collar and mild manner, the famous Quaker detective sees what others miss—the flinch behind a smile, the secret two people share across a dinner table, the tell-tale roll of bills in a dead man's trunk.

When wealthy banker Herman Stanton calls him in, the case seems straightforward. Ten thousand dollars, vanished overnight. A combination safe, opened without force. A short list of suspects who all knew the numbers.

But Broadbrim senses the real problem the moment Stanton's voice cracks.

He doesn't fear losing the money. He fears finding out who took it.

Because the evidence keeps circling back to Archie—the beloved nephew, the young man Stanton hopes will one day marry his daughter. A man who returned from abroad changed, haunted, carrying a secret he shares with no one. Except, perhaps, with the banker's beautiful young wife.

As Broadbrim works deeper into the household, the trap he sets grows more dangerous than he planned. Every clue uncovers another lie. Every answer opens another door that someone desperately wants kept shut.

In a house full of people with something to hide, can Broadbrim mark the real criminal before the wrong man is destroyed?