The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

A cadet from the prestigious military academy, West Point, is dead. Not simply dead but left hanging from a rope in the parade grounds. The next morning, an even more horrifying fact emerges. Over the course of the night, the heart of the boy has been removed. With suicide ruled out, the top brass must quietly investigate this terrifying threat. Local civilian, Gus Landor is a retired widower. Once a police detective, the keen-eyed investigator is coaxed from his restless retirement to take on the case. In his questions and queries, Gus attracts a young cadet eager to help. Never too far from a drink, nor from his volumes of poetry, Edgar Allan Poe is the willing assistant. The pair risk the peril of an unrecognizable evil as it eludes their greatest efforts of discovery.