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The Riddle: A Braun Cases Novel
Paperback
Series: The Braun Cases, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 15 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Detroit, 1962. A union secretary is found hanging in his office. The department calls it suicide.
Detective John Braun calls it murder - because dead men don't fight the rope, and nobody stood on that chair.
Two years after exposing eight corrupt officers, Braun is radioactive in the department - trusted by no one, tolerated by all. Now a recording secretary named Stanley Poremba is dead in a locked union office.
But Braun sees what everybody else is paid to ignore: an untouched chair, a body four feet too far, and a filing cabinet with a gap where the records used to be. The investigation leads through two sets of books, a shell company that may not exist, and a network of Masonic handshakes connecting unions, management, and the police department.
His own mentor wears a lodge ring. His evidence is being contaminated from inside the building. And the only people who want the truth are the ones with the most to lose.
The Riddle is the second novel in The Braun Cases, a five-book series following John Braun through 1960s Detroit.
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