Michael Capuzzo, the writer of the NY Times bestseller Close to Shore , provides listeners in to the Vidocq Society, a team of the world’s main forensic researchers, who meet every month to solve chilly cases and bring murderers to justice.

Three of the best detectives in the world-a renowned FBI agent turned personal eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks towards the dead, and an eccentric profiler referred to as “the living Sherlock Holmes”-were heartsick within the growing tide of unsolved about The Murder Area: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Collect to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cool Instances murders of innocents. Friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter made the decision that something needed to be carried out, and they pledged themselves to a grand search for justice. Named for the initial contemporary detective, the Parisian Eugène François Vidocq-the flamboyant Napoleonic true to life sleuth who motivated Sherlock Holmes-the Vidocq Culture meets regular monthly in its secretive chambers to resolve a cool murder over a gourmet lunch.

The Murder Space attracts the listener right into a chilling, darkly humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from their Victorian dining area to hunt the ruthless murders of a millionaire’s son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a kid killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.