Hawkeye Hart Finds the Flaw

By Samuel DenHartog

Milo Hart is ten, sharp as a tack, and in Brookside he is known as Hawkeye Hart. In a small river town with two bridges, walkable streets, and a brick mill district full of old buildings and new problems, Milo has a gift for spotting the one detail everyone else steps over. He does not need superpowers. He pays attention, asks the right questions, and follows the facts until the story finally fits.

In these kid-sized mysteries, trouble arrives in ordinary places and turns tense fast. A crooked photo in a little museum inside an old mill hides a break-in that looks "high-tech" until Milo notices fresh chips, dust lines, and brick grit that point somewhere much simpler. At a school bake sale, "missing" cookie money threatens the fifth grade field trip until Milo untangles the math behind mismatched bag sizes and one wrong assumption. At Two Bridge Sweets, a crowd gathers when a kid swears he got shorted, and Milo proves the scale is honest while the counter is not.

The cases keep coming, and every one rewards sharp reading. A stolen sketch in the hallway becomes a fairness fight over credit, paper, and graphite that does not behave the way a lie needs it to. A "stolen" dog leash on Cedar Lane turns into a porch-and-pawprint puzzle that clears an innocent kid before the blame can stick. Even Milo's mom, Chief Marla Hart, gets pulled into a clean timeline mystery when one wrong entry on a call sheet could change how a whole day looks on paper. In Brookside, small problems can feel huge, but Hawkeye Hart knows one good observation can make the truth impossible to ignore.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQ57X7BK
• ISBN13: 9798249761752
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"