Midnight

At midnight, with sleet glazing the streets and no passengers in sight, Spike Walters leaves his cab for a cup of coffee. One veiled woman later, his empty taxi holds a mystery—and a dead man.

On a freezing December night, Spike is keeping watch at Union Station, loyal to his taxi company’s promise to meet every train. The passenger who finally appears is young, richly dressed, and oddly calm; she gives him an address, then seems to disappear, leaving Spike to face a corpse in his cab and questions he cannot answer. As detective David Carroll takes up the case, the dead man’s connections threaten to draw Spike into a tangle of deception and motive. Who brought the stranger into Spike’s cab—and why?

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