“Best-selling author James Pattersonpopulates his murder-mystery novels with cold-blooded killers and smart detectives” (USA Today). InHolmes is Missing, PI BrendanHolmes has committed the perfect crime—he’s made himself disappear.

Success has come quickly toHolmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—BrendanHolmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation.

But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebralHolmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster.

Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that’s been lost.