Shadow in the House

The arrow that killed millionaire Mason Rees Harrison was shot from somewhere within his own crumbling mansion. Found in his study, the body surrounded by silence and old secrets, Harrison's death defies easy explanation. What was he hiding in those shadowed halls? Who in his fractured household held enough resentment to kill with such deliberate, archaic violence? Enter Paul Bernard, a retired detective drawn back into the world's darkness, and Landis, his younger colleague still learning that cases like this have no clean endings. Together they navigate a family teeming with suppressed grudges, whispered rumors, and enough buried guilt to fill the mansion's hidden passageways. Every door they open reveals another room of deception. Gluck writes with the precision of someone who understands that the most terrifying crimes aren't committed with weapons at all, but with silence, with time, with the slow rot of family bonds never allowed to heal. For readers who want their mysteries atmospheric and psychologically rich, this 1920s gothic novel delivers both a killing and a family portrait in equal measure.