LUCIDITY — Pamela Allen

In Pamela Allen's thrilling tale of murder, deception, and identity confusion, dreams and deception collide.A Silicon Valley CEO commissions former Menlo Park police detective Hank Madden to locate Stacey Walker's remains and locate her missing husband, the main suspect in her unsolved murder, twenty years after the case of her disappearance went cold.Four months later, close to Central Park in New York City, author Candace Epstein is shoved in front of a car. Max Fremmer, her editor, gets involved in the inquiry into her attempted murder despite his insistence that he is not.Fremmer becomes suspicious of his client's association with a dubious Upper East Side lucid dreaming institute and its personnel as he investigates Candace's past to clear his own name, and as an unforeseen connection to Madden's probe in California materializes.Madden and Fremmer form an unexpected alliance to uncover the wrongdoing hiding behind the Lucidity Center's façade as similarities between the cases on each coast start to appear. But can they discover the connection between the cases in time, or are they just dreaming?Allen's Lucidity astounds with intricate detail that keeps listeners guessing until the shocking conclusion.