The Marginalist – Paperback

Someone has been leaving notes in the margins. They’re meant for one man.

Thirty-one years ago, Professor Leland Voss fell to his death in the stairwell of the Caldera Tower. The college called it an accident and closed the file within the week.

Now a donated book has tumbled out of a split box on the floor of the Second Act Caf. In its margin, in fresh pencil, are three lines: Voss. College. The tower knows.

Ari Penrose has sold used books on Main Street for nearly forty years. He knows the difference between a note someone lost and a note someone placed. This one was placed, exactly where he would find it.

By nightfall a camera has flashed through his shop window. By morning a stranger is waiting on the tower stairs. And Ari and his oldest friends are following a trail laid by someone patient enough to wait three decades, and careful enough to stay just out of sight.

The truth has been kept a long time. The question is who kept it, and why they want it found now.