The Duplicate Key
Harbor Lane Hardware, Caldmere
An insurance investigator working a routine commercial fraud case ends up assaulted in a hardware store — and the question isn't whether she found what she was looking for, but who found out she had.
Everyone has something to hide.
36. Married Walt's son David, who works offshore six months a year. Sharp, underestimated, quietly furious about being stuck in a hardware store in a town she married into.
The most talented performer in Caldmere and she knows it. Charismatic, competitive, insecure beneath the bravado. Funny in a way that occasionally draws blood.
A French-Canadian transplant who came to Caldmere for the seafood. An extraordinary chef, a terrible businessman. His food is transcendent. His management style is volcanic.
Can you name the culprit?
Read the case file, interrogate the suspects, and make your accusation — five guesses to crack it. The deduction board and the solution are for detectives only.
Caldmere, Maine.
A small town on the Maine coast where everyone knows everyone, and nothing is quite what it seems. Explore the locations and characters behind every case.