Coleman Carmichael is a part-time teacher, part-time tutor, and full-time learner. After solving a mysterious death in his own Harlem apartment building, he draws the attention of Jay Baldwin, a young police detective. The pair team up, piecing together a string of seemingly disparate murders perpetrated by the Hudson River Killer.
Harlem, New York, 1930. Times are tough, questions are difficult, and answers are scarce if you don’t know how to LISTEN. Coleman Carmichael, once an ordinary teacher, is the man in the know. The one you turn to when a woman falls to her death at one of your lavish parties. When the saxophones fade and the sound of a cocking pistol trickles off the walls of a dark alley, your fate will rest on whether you called… Detective Coleman Carmichael.