- CALDER -

Joe Osborne is useless.

For as much as he charges for his investigations, I expected better. So far he has only managed to confirm things anyone might have discovered with a thorough internet search: that Patricia Harker is a real person and that she has a son named Taran of about my age. Or at least she did. Apparently she died two months ago.

Taran Harker, he tells me, lives up in Cincinnati, and he worked as an insurance broker up until ...