Taken at the Table
Undertow Coffee, Caldmere
A travel writer's leather satchel goes missing from Undertow Coffee — along with the camera inside worth three thousand dollars. Three people had reason to move it. Only one had reason to keep it.
Everyone has something to hide.
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.
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.
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.