The Lazarus Map

Karen S Ramos

Some men don't stay buried.

When a body is pulled from the lake at Barlow Castle, investigator Emma Holmes and her steady partner Henry Thompson expect a simple case—a stranger, an accident, a name to attach to a grave. Instead they find fine clothes with no history, a footprint that doesn't belong, and a trail that leads straight to Sir Reginald Barrington, a collector of antiquities who vanished chasing something worth killing for.

The deeper Emma digs, the less the dead man's story adds up—and the more the castle's real secrets surface. A missing leather-bound book. A map, old and half-ruined, said to lead to a fortune hidden generations ago. And a shocking discovery: the lord of the castle everyone believes is gone isn't dead at all, but hiding from the two people most determined to see him stay that way.

As Emma pieces together fragments of maps, coded journals, and a conspiracy that reaches back through the Barlow family's history, she realizes the killers are still circling—and they won't stop until the treasure, and everyone standing between them and it, is theirs. With time running out and danger closing in on the castle itself, Emma must expose the truth before the past finishes what it started.

The Lazarus Map is a twisty historical mystery of buried secrets, ruthless greed, and a detective who refuses to let the dead stay silent.