Hi, I’m Miles Hardy. I’m fourteen and I live in Frontier, Iowa, a sleepy town where nothing really happens. I’ve started a detective agency with my best friend Kevin, but most of the cases we’ve had just involve missing cats. I live with my parents and my older brother Simon, who’s a genius inventor. I always suspected Simon was working on building a time machine. I didn’t have proof until one day, I opened Simon’s bedroom to find him dead!
Through clues he left behind, Simon sent me to an underground lair where he’d created a glove that can send someone back in time. He gave careful directions to go back a week in the past to figure out who would’ve killed him to get their hands on the time machine.
Going back a week in time was crazy. Anyone could be the culprit! From a bully at school, to the weird science teacher, to my new crush Maisie who just got town, even my dad who’s a failed inventor, or my mom who’s always been kind of catatonic. The murderer could even go all the way up to the government.
I only have a week to find out who did it, but the biggest wrench in the plan is making sure my past self doesn’t spot me because that could un-end time itself! This is a case I’ve been born to solve, way harder than finding missing cats—saving Simon’s life, but also making sure that the time machine doesn’t wind up in the wrong hands with a plan that could threaten us all.
Still, if anyone can solve the case, it’s me, super sleuth Miles Hardy.
Miles In Time – A Miles In Time Mystery, Book 1
Genre: Young Adult Mystery
Release: May 2025
Format: Print, Digital
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Solve the mystery, save the future…
14-year-old Miles Hardy spends most of his time as an amateur Sherlock Holmes and running his detective agency with his good friend and loyal assistant, Kevin. However, in sleepy Frontier, Iowa, it’s been hard to snag a case bigger than finding some old lady’s missing cat—until Miles’ genius older brother, Simon the inventor, winds up dead.
Using his knack for uncovering hidden truths, Miles stumbles upon a secret lab where his late brother, Simon, created a groundbreaking time machine. Among the discoveries is a chilling video Simon recorded before his death, revealing his fear of being followed and a dire warning: if anything happens to him, Miles must use the time machine to uncover who is after the invention and stop them. The stakes couldn’t be higher—if the device falls into the wrong hands, the future itself could be at risk.
From suspicious classmates to shadowy corporations, no one is above suspicion as Miles races against time to solve his first real case. But one wrong move could change everything—and running into his past self is strictly off-limits.
Can Miles crack the case, save his brother’s life, and protect the future? Or will time run out before he uncovers the truth? Grab your copy of Miles in Time today and find out!
About the author
Lee Matthew Goldberg is the Anthony, Lefty, and Prix du Polar nominated author of fifteen novels including THE ANCESTOR and THE MENTOR, and THE GREAT GIMMELMANS along with his five-book DESIRE CARD series and the RUNAWAY TRAIN trilogy. MILES IN TIME comes out May 2025. After graduating with an MFA from the New School, he’s been published in multiple languages and his writing has also appeared as a contributor in CrimeReads, Pipeline Artists, LitHub, Chicago Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Jewish Book Council, The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, Mystery Tribune, The Nerd Daily, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Writers Review, Cagibi, Necessary Fiction, the anthology Dirty Boulevard, The Montreal Review, The Adirondack Review, The New Plains Review, Maudlin House and others. His pilots and screenplays have been finalists in Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay contests. He is the publisher of Fringe Press, the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at LeeMatthewGoldberg.com.