Quantum of Shadows

Some minds see more than they are permitted to. A government programme has spent thirty years making sure they stop.

The dreams begin on a Tuesday - though Dr Isabelle Crawford is no longer certain that Tuesday means what it used to.

A quantum physicist who has spent her career studying what it means to observe reality, Izzy now finds the line between dream and waking thinning under her. In the dreams she meets other versions of herself, made from other choices. They are looking at her. They are waiting.

Across Melbourne, Detective Adrian Rivera is working a case the institution would prefer forgotten: his sister Elena, who vanished twenty years ago under circumstances no one could explain, and a file no one will let him reopen. The patterns lead him, inevitably, to Izzy.

Behind them both stands a national programme thirty years in the making - and a director with thirty-seven manila folders on his desk, each one a researcher his department has quietly destroyed. He has a weapon ready. He has a name for what he is about to do. And he has six weeks.

A Quantum of Shadows is a psychological thriller about perception, suppression, and the inheritance of minds left alone too long.

For readers of Blake Crouch and Emily St John Mandel - a literary thriller where the science is real and the danger is closer than anyone will admit.