Šelma – Mayne Andrew (2025)

Professor of bioinformatics Theo Cray is not having the best morning. The ice machine is broken, and the police are banging on his motel room door. He learns that he is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his former student only after his involvement in the horrific event is ruled out. It seems that a bear has torn the young girl apart in the Montana woods. However, Professor Cray, due to his profession, is used to seeing patterns where others find only chaos. And so he notices something that others have overlooked. Something unnatural. Something clearly done by human hands. Theo realizes that this atrocity was not committed by any animal, but by a person, and that this is certainly not the first time. And since the police do not believe him, it becomes clear to him that he is likely the only person who can stop the killer. Although Theo is more familiar with digital codes and microbes than with evaluating forensic evidence, he must now apply everything he knows to a completely new area of research. And keep one step ahead of a dangerously inventive serial killer... whose existence no one believes in except for him. A brutally addictive debut novel by magician and illusionist Andrew Mayne, star of the television show Questions and Answers: Don't Trust Andrew Mayne,...