Young Broadbrim and the Hotel Thieves

A detective with a gift for seeing what others miss. A hotel full of secrets. And two brothers whose innocence may already be buried under the weight of stolen diamonds.

Young Broadbrim arrives in Worcester certain the case is solved—a pair of thieves caught, one with a diamond still warm in his pocket. The local men are satisfied. The hotel clerk is insufferably proud. And everyone agrees that Joseph and William Hadley are guilty.

Everyone except Young Broadbrim.

Something doesn't add up. A man who takes a shortcut to the door is not a man sneaking away from a crime. A clever thief doesn't walk into the trap that catches him. And a stolen sample case full of thousands of dollars in cut diamonds doesn't simply vanish into thin air.

As Young Broadbrim digs deeper into the Commonwealth Hotel's six weeks of unsolved robberies, he finds that every tidy answer hides a messier truth underneath. The real thieves are still out there—still watching, still working—and they are far more cunning than a conceited hotel clerk ever imagined.

Now Young Broadbrim races against a justice system already closing around two innocent men, hunting criminals who leave nothing behind but suspicion pointed at the wrong faces.

Can he trace the diamonds and expose the true culprits before the Hadley brothers pay the price for someone else's crime?