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The Transformist
Paperback
Series: The Vincent James Gideon Mysteries, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 2 2026
Pages: 554
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A man is found murdered in his locked study.
The weapon lies beside his body.
The fingerprints point to only one suspect.
And the verdict is already waiting.
But legendary detective Vincent Gideon knows something is wrong.
The crime scene is too perfect.
The evidence is too clean.
And when a woman he loves stands accused of murder, Gideon is forced into the most dangerous investigation of his career - a case that reaches into secret rooms, staged deaths, disappearing identities, and a criminal mastermind who has never been caught.
Behind the polished walls of a wealthy estate, a body is discovered seated at a desk, a gun at his side, a will unfinished beneath his hand. The doors were locked. The windows sealed. No one entered. No one escaped. And yet the murder could not have happened the way the evidence claims.
As the inquest unfolds, every testimony tightens the noose. A blood-stained handkerchief. A missing ring. A forged will. A vanished nephew. A mysterious woman named Ava O'Neill. And a shadowy figure known only as The Transformist - a master of disguise who turns justice itself into a weapon.
Gideon must race against time to expose a criminal who doesn't merely commit murder - he designs it.
Because in this game, the killer doesn't run from the law.
He traps it.
And when the final truth is revealed, nothing - not the victim, not the evidence, not even the murderer - is who they appear to be.
A masterfully woven locked-room mystery filled with deception, hidden passages, courtroom tension, psychological warfare, and one of the most dangerous villains ever written.
This is not just a murder.
It is a masterpiece of manipulation.
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