Dreams and deception collide in David Carnoy’s page-turning tale of murder, manipulation, and mistaken identity.

After Blade Music, his “gripping thriller debut” (Kirkus Evaluations) as well as the Big Leave, called a “page-turner” (Examiner.com), David Carnoy’s Detective Hank Madden returns in this bicoastal caper that pits dreams against actuality, where nothing could be taken at encounter value.

Twenty years following the unsolved case of Stacey Walker’s disappearance went cold, a Silicon Valley professional hires about Lucidity the retired Menlo Recreation area law enforcement detective Hank Madden to get her body and locate her missing spouse, the prime think in her unsolved murder.

Four months later on, author Candace Epstein is pushed in front of a car near NY City’s Central Park. Her editor, Utmost Fremmer, becomes entangled in the investigation of her attempted murder, though he is adamant that he’s uninvolved. As he digs into Candace’s background to apparent his very own name, Fremmer develops dubious of his client’s connection to a nefarious institute for lucid dreaming on the Upper East Side and its own staff, whose tales never seem to add up?most while an urgent connect to Madden’s analysis in California emerges.

As similarities arise between the instances on each coast, Madden and Fremmer forge an unlikely collaboration to expose what misconduct lurks beneath the façade from the Lucidity Middle?but can they unravel the secret that links their investigations with time, or are they only dreaming?

Carnoy’s Lucidity stuns with organic detail that may keep visitors guessing until the final, satisfying jolt.