A MAN IN GLOVES

Some things go missing because someone loses them. Others go missing because someone wants them to.Aarav Nair has spent six years learning to tell the difference; one lost object at a time, from a cramped office at the edge of the Copper Market, using a gift he has never fully explained to anyone. He touches what people have lost. He does not touch what people have hidden.Then a woman asks him to find her missing brother, and the two stop staying separate.What should have been a short search for a man who never came home turns up a name that shouldn't still matter, a fire that was supposed to have ended twenty-two years ago, and a silence too well organized to be an accident. The closer Aarav gets to the truth, the more the people protecting it start paying attention, to him, and to everyone he loves.He built his whole life around never being the one who gets hurt by what he finds.That is about to stop being true.A Man in Gloves, a slow-burning literary mystery about the things we bury to survive them, and what it costs when someone finally starts digging.