Notes Left in the Margin
Undertow Coffee, Caldmere
A Bellwick graduate student is found shaking outside Undertow Coffee on Thursday evening, clutching a torn envelope and refusing to say who put it in his hands. When he finally talks, he describes six months of escalating threats — and a demand for silence about something he witnessed entirely by accident.
Everyone has something to hide.
22. Creative writing senior. Quiet, observant, gently anxious. Writes everything down in Moleskine notebooks — thinks he is gathering material for fiction. Is actually building a forensic record of Caldmere without realizing it.
31. Bellwick dropout (left Dr. Osei's marine biology program abruptly). Sharp, charismatic, restless. Hears every conversation in her shop and trades in social currency the way some people trade in cash.
The university's rising star. Published, grant-funded, and absolutely relentless. Direct, impatient, principled. Her students worship her; her colleagues resent her.
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.