The True Witness

Tom Videre is a forensic psychologist eighteen months into a retirement he never wanted. Then he sees a news photo of a woman found dead in the Chicago River beneath Columbus Drive.

Painted on the bridge support behind her is a symbol he last saw in black crayon, drawn over and over by a former patient. The same symbol is carved into the victim.

Working beside Detective Roger Murus, Tom follows it from the river to a 600-year-old manuscript no one has ever been able to read, the Voynich Manuscript, and into a conspiracy that reaches the people he loves.