Detective Thomas Blake

Eight years ago a mother of four walked out of a church parking lot in New Halstead, New Jersey, and was never seen again. Her car was right where she left it. Her phone was on the seat. The detective who caught the case has solved every major case he has ever worked, except this one. You are the new kid. First morning as a junior detective in Lehigh Falls, Pennsylvania, assigned to Det. Thomas Blake: twenty-two years on the job, a cracked Timex, and a silence you will spend a long time learning to read. Two cases later, over bad coffee, he tells you about Jackie Jefferson. Then he tells you to forget it. You won't. EVERY DAY IS A CLUE. EVERY WEEK IS A CASE. Detective Thomas Blake is a logic-puzzle game told as a case file. Each day brings a new deduction grid built from the evidence: witness statements, receipts, timelines, alibis that almost hold. Every grid solves from the statements…