The wrongful conviction had cost Dario Kwan eleven years of his life, and the first thing he told Investigator Priya Solis when she took his case wasn’t a plea for freedom, but a warning. “The real killer’s still out there,” Read more…

The locked-room murder at Ashcombe Manor should have been impossible, and Inspector Farrow Delacroix had spent eleven hours trying to prove exactly that before finally accepting that impossible things sometimes simply required a more careful accounting of the possible. “Every Read more…

The embezzlement had gone undetected for six years, which meant, by the time forensic accountant Wren Castellan finally found the thread that unraveled it, the missing sum had grown large enough to threaten the entire pension fund of a mid-sized Read more…

The witness protection file had exactly one problem, and it was the kind of problem Marshal Delia Vance had spent three sleepless nights trying to convince herself wasn’t as bad as it looked: someone on the inside had leaked her Read more…

The jewels had been missing for six hours before anyone at the Ferrand Gala noticed the safe behind the host’s portrait had been replaced with an identical, empty one. “Whoever did this had access to the house well before tonight’s Read more…

The ransom call came eleven hours after seven-year-old Mia Fenwick disappeared from her own backyard, and Detective Renata Osei had learned, over a decade of kidnapping cases, that the eleven-hour gap was the detail that should have frightened everyone more Read more…

The forged Vermeer had passed through three auction houses and one very prestigious museum acquisition committee before art fraud investigator Nadia Okafor found the single brushstroke that gave it away. “You’re certain,” said her supervisor, Chief Inspector Boone Castellanos, examining Read more…

The cold case file had sat untouched for nineteen years before Detective Iris Calloway pulled it, and the first thing she noticed was that somebody had gotten to the DNA evidence before the original detectives ever ran a proper test. Read more…

Detective Mara Voss had worked eleven bank robberies in her career, and none of them had ever left the vault untouched while the robbers spent forty extra minutes in the manager’s office instead. “That’s the part that doesn’t make sense,” Read more…