Ciaran Reilly is a young novelist who discovers that someone appears to be mimicking the crimes he is writing about in his mysteries. His murder victims turn out to be real crimes that are currently unsolved. So who is reading his novels and then committing the murders? Or could it be the other way around?The young novelist begins to investigate the cases he has written about chronologically, and discovers all is not as it seems. The Scribe takes the reader on a journey into the mind of the wicked and heinous crimes of a killer who has yet to be found.