The Silent Mind
The ultimate lesson in murder begins when the professor becomes the curriculum
- Thriller
- Crime Fiction
By day, Professor Alistair Finch is the university’s most celebrated criminologist, an expert in the twisted minds of the world’s most dangerous predators. By night, he is the monster he lectures about, executing meticulous murders that he views as the ultimate academic expression. His carefully constructed life begins to fracture when a copycat killer, known as the Shadow Figure, starts mimicking his crimes with a chaotic, cruel depravity that offends Finch's sense of order. When gritty homicide detective Regina 'Reggie' Banks recruits Finch to consult on the case, he is forced into a deadly double life: hunting a mirror image of himself while keeping his own dark nature hidden from the police. As Finch navigates a web of blackmail and professional scrutiny, his psyche begins to splinter. With a brilliant student suspecting the truth and his 'Predator' persona demanding total control, the line between the hunter and the hunted dissolves. In this game of cat and mouse, the smallest slip will reveal that the man teaching the class is the most dangerous subject of all. In The Silent Mind, the search for the truth is a descent into madness.