Sleeping Dogs

New York literary agent Peter Katz receives a proposal for the publication of an autobiography titled «The Book of Mirrors». Attached to the proposal is the beginning of a manuscript—someone named Richard Flynn recalls his years at Princeton, his first love, and working for the famous psychology professor Joseph Wider. These events from 25 years ago had a tragic ending, yet the criminal remained uncaught and undisclosed; now Richard suddenly sees everything that happened in a new light, reevaluating the role of his former beloved Laura Baines… but the manuscript ends abruptly. Intrigued, Peter tries to acquire the rest of «The Book of Mirrors», but the manuscript proves just as elusive as the truth about what happened a quarter-century ago…
«Sleeping Dogs» («The Book of Mirrors») is a mystery novel in the spirit of Marisha Pessl's «Night Film». It is a book about how imagination unconsciously substitutes reality. It is a book about the secret power of stories—those that we tell, those that we hide, and those for the sake of keeping them secret that we are ready to do anything.