Of sound mind
By: James Waltzer
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781942546184
Subjects: Audiometry; Murder; Hearing; Fiction
Description: "A slow-boil, modern noir, Of Sound Mind finds audiometry technician Richard Keene settling into his new, center-city apartment just as he reaches his thirtieth birthday. Formerly confined to a mental institution, Richard struggles to adapt to a world of adult freedom. He possesses abnormally acute powers of hearing and suffers from claustrophobia, yet he feels unleashed to dare fate in high places - in short, he is a bundle of neuroses. When he believes he hears a strangulation murder committed behind the closed door of a neighboring apartment in his high-rise, Richard confronts a chance for redemption that he knew would come someday. For the incident eerily parallels the defining experience of his childhood, the night he heard - through the walls of his row house - the death struggle of the little girl next door. But just how reliable are Richard's perceptions?"--