The Mirroring Mind
To catch a monster, he must race against a dying mind's final masterpiece
- Mystery
- Thriller
- Crime Fiction
Arthur Pendergast was once a ghost: a master clockmaker who concealed his chilling crimes with mechanical precision. Now, confined to an assisted living facility and fading into the haze of dementia, his identity is slipping away. But during sudden, terrifying flickers of clarity, his procedural instinct for violence awakens. Desperate to prove his legacy before his memory dissolves completely, Arthur begins recreating his most notorious cold cases. The resulting crime scenes confound the police—oscillating wildly between surgical mastery and senile chaos. Only veteran detective Silas Vance recognizes the gruesome signatures from twenty years ago. Haunted by the unsolved murders that defined his career, Vance realizes he is locked in a bizarre, frantic race against time. As a vengeful daughter circles and corrupt figures scheme to keep past secrets buried, Vance must hunt down a predator who is rapidly forgetting his own horrific acts. Can Vance extract the truth before Arthur’s mind erases every trace of evidence forever? A brilliant and harrowing psychological cat-and-mouse thriller, The Mirroring Mind explores the terrifying fracture between memory, identity, and cold-blooded evil.