Mercer - Tyler Roberts

Alex Mercer hasn’t cracked a real case in fourteen years. His grandfather built Mercer Family Investigations into New York’s finest detective agency. Alex has run it into the ground, one cheating-spouse stakeout at a time. His assistant just quit. His bills are past due. And then a letter arrives from Edinburgh, Scotland, addressed to a firm that has never once worked overseas.

A woman named Dolores Murray says her daughter Penelope vanished a year ago, that others in town have disappeared too, and that the police and every local investigator have given up. She also says something stranger: that Alex may feel more at home in Edinburgh than he realizes.

He takes the case, if only to escape New York for a while. What he finds is a city of cobblestone streets and centuries-old secrets, a tavern with more history than it lets on, and a local legend about a woman named Rebecca Campbell, hanged for witchcraft in 1690, whose ghost is said to still walk the grounds where she died. Alex doesn’t believe in ghosts. He’s about to.

As he pulls at the threads of Penelope’s disappearance, Alex finds himself caught between dangerous men guarding old secrets, allies who aren’t quite what they seem, a missing woman he’s falling for, and a truth about his own family that changes everything he thought he knew about who he is.

Mercer is a fast, funny, and genuinely eerie paranormal mystery for readers who love a reluctant private investigator, a ghost story rooted in real history, and a case that gets more personal with every clue. If you like your mysteries with a body count, a bit of humor, and just enough of the supernatural to keep you checking the shadows, Alex Mercer’s first case won’t be his last.