In 1930s Palm Beach, a missing dog leads PI Drake Marlow into a world of murder, obsession, and dark secrets in CRYPTIC MARKS.
Private investigator Drake Marlow thinks he’s seen it all until a tearful boy hires him to find a missing dog. But Tux was no ordinary mutt. The troublemaker had a knack for showing up where he wasn’t wanted—like behind the hedges of wealthy estates and at the hind end of society’s most guarded pedigree poodles.
As Drake investigates, a scandal erupts involving elite dog shows and socialites with a taste for rough-edged company. The deeper the investigation goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes—especially when a body turns up cold and the line between eccentricity and madness blurs.
Murder, obsession, and forbidden love collide in in this darkly elegant whodunit. where even the purest pedigree can’t mask the secrets beneath.
