When a $30 million diamond disappears, the gentleman P.I. embarks on an adventure across Europe in this “delightfully quirky and original” mystery (Peter James, author of Dead Simple).

When a beautiful woman walks into the office of PI Frank Orpheus, asking him to find out who she is, he knows he can’t refuse her haunting eyes. Even if tracking down her missing identity leads him into a corner of the criminal underworld he never knew existed...

Suzy Bylin has a month to go through and organize her mother’s home and her entire inheritance before the town condemns the house. Overwhelmed with grief and guilt for throwing out her late mother’s belongings, Suzy turns to city code inspector Will Stone for comfort that turns into so much more.

Spanning from Victorian England to the West Indies, this is a prize-winning novel of adventure, love, comedy, and tragedy—a “rollicking” tale that was named a Favorite Novel of the Year by Tin House and one of Edwidge Danticat’s Best Books of the Year in the New Yorker (Library Journal).

“In words as vibrant as the personalities he creates, Antoni deftly captures unconquered territories and the risks we’re willing to take exploring them.” —Publishers Weekly