The Impossible Detective
Published on 20. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
979-8-89565-196-4 (ISBN)
Description
Nobody believes her.
Twelve-year-old Abani Singh claims to have witnessed a self-driving car murder a man and drive away with no one inside. Even private detective Mark St. Johns, grandson of the famous Los Angeles sleuth "The Falcon," believes that the distressed girl made a mistake or fabricated the story. Her claim; that the car hit the man, backed up, struck him again and drove off on a major highway, seems impossible.
But when killers target Abani, Mark discovers a threat of impossible power-one that can hide, lie, steal, and kill more destructively than any criminal he's ever faced.
Twelve-year-old Abani Singh claims to have witnessed a self-driving car murder a man and drive away with no one inside. Even private detective Mark St. Johns, grandson of the famous Los Angeles sleuth "The Falcon," believes that the distressed girl made a mistake or fabricated the story. Her claim; that the car hit the man, backed up, struck him again and drove off on a major highway, seems impossible.
But when killers target Abani, Mark discovers a threat of impossible power-one that can hide, lie, steal, and kill more destructively than any criminal he's ever faced.
Reviews / Votes
"An entertaining doomsday scenario that you'll wish was more impossible than it ends up seeming." -- <I>Kirkus Reviews</I>More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Post Hill Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-89565-196-4 (9798895651964)
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Person
Bestselling author and journalist Bob Reiss is fascinated by the border between order and anarchy. His nonfiction work has covered trouble spots around the world, including the Amazon, Antarctica, the Arctic, Sudan, and Somalia. His fiction tends to ask "what if" when it comes to big questions facing society. All told, Bob has published twenty-three books of fiction and nonfiction.
Bob is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Oregon. He has taught writing at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yale University in Singapore, Montclair University, the University of North Carolina MFA program, and on a Coast Guard ship in the Arctic Ocean.
Bob is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Oregon. He has taught writing at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yale University in Singapore, Montclair University, the University of North Carolina MFA program, and on a Coast Guard ship in the Arctic Ocean.