Breakfast at Madeline's — Matt Witten

A Sleuth's Work Is Never Done....

Jacob Burns -- husband, father and frustrated writer -- has finally sold a screenplay. But success isn't all it's cracked up to be. Now he has writer's block, and spends his days drinking coffee in his favorite cafe, Madeline's.

That is, until one warm summer morning Donald Penn, an eccentric Madeline's regular, hands Jacob a key and drops dead at his feet. The key is to a safe deposit box, whose contents seem innocent enough -- until Jacob's home is burglarized and his family threatened. Now Jacob is involved in a puzzling mystery that will expose him to some of the finest families in Saratoga, New York -- and some of the worst in human behavior. But to find a killer, Jacob must prove that a murder has occurred.