Young Broadbrim and the Black Hand

A detective who sees everything. A girl who has vanished into the dark. A conspiracy reaching deeper than anyone dares to imagine.

Old Broadbrim has spent a lifetime reading the truth in shadows. The famous Quaker detective trusts his instincts the way other men trust God—absolutely and without apology.

But when a midnight rescue on Hell Gate's treacherous waters delivers a half-drowned heiress into the hands of ruthless kidnappers, Old Broadbrim finds himself tangled in something far darker than a simple ransom scheme. Alice Fletcher is missing, her desperate father is waiting for a letter written by criminals, and a man the world believes dead has just walked through the detective's door with a story that turns everything on its head.

As Old Broadbrim and his fearless young assistant Harry Wilson close in on the Black Hand, they discover layer after layer of calculated treachery—betrayal engineered years before the first crime was ever committed. Someone has been moving these pieces for a very long time.

And they do not intend to lose.

Now Old Broadbrim races against a conspiracy that has already swallowed one innocent life and is reaching greedily for another. Every clue points toward a darkness that powerful men have paid dearly to keep buried.

Can the old Quaker unravel the Black Hand's web before Alice Fletcher disappears forever—and before the true villain destroys every witness who knows the truth?