First published 2025
At two in the morning, Auguste Poe races across the Williamsburg Bridge toward a crime scene that will test everything he knows about detective work. His partner Margaret Marple sits beside him, her mind already working through the possibilities ahead. They are two thirds of Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations, a Brooklyn agency that has built its reputation on solving cases others cannot crack. But tonight they face their most personal challenge yet. Six infants have disappeared from New York, and so has their third partner, the brilliant Brendan Holmes. Detective Helene Grey has called them to a baffling abduction scene, but without Holmes to guide their investigation, Poe and Marple must rely on their own skills. Poe brings the physical strength, Marple provides the observational genius, but Holmes was always the strategic mind that held them together. As the kidnappers prepare to strike again, the two remaining detectives must solve not one mystery but two. They need to find the missing children and rescue their vanished partner before more lives are lost.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, missing-partner
Setting: Brooklyn, New York, Williamsburg Bridge
Period: 2 AM
332 pages · Kindle Edition · Little, Brown and Company
Content warnings: kidnapping