Wrong Shelf, Wrong Name
Caldmere Fire Station, Caldmere
A $14,000 thermal imaging camera donated to Caldmere Fire Station has vanished overnight — and the donor, Petra Dunning, is furious enough to drive down from Portland and demand answers. Captain Rosa Delgado-Venn has three suspects and a station full of people who all had a reason to touch the equipment locker.
Everyone has something to hide.
46. Fire Captain for 6 years, with the department for 22. Commanding, direct, competitive. Reads burn patterns the way a coroner reads bodies. Department's arson investigator.
34. Department's best medic and worst cook (the chili is his). Former Navy corpsman. Calm to the point of being unnerving. Has nightmares he doesn't mention.
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.