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HALLUCINATION
Fans of Thomas Harris and Dennis Lehane—prepare for an extraordinary journey into the darkest corners of the human mind. Hallucination is a relentless psychological thriller of obsession, unforgettable characters, and a shattering finale.
A serial killer, branded by the press as the Iron Priest, marks each victim with another woman’s name. The trail leads to the sinister secret of the number 118...
FBI Special Agent Mike Northam pursues him through the shadowed labyrinth of Philadelphia—and into the darker labyrinth of his own mind. As reality blurs with hallucination, as killer and victim trade places, the deadliest danger lies not outside, but inside his head.
HALLUCINATION — a breathless psychological thriller with a shocking ending.
Author Alein Kentigerna, blood relative of a real-life serial killer, writes where blood drips, shadows whisper, and the devil waits. His fiction provokes, unsettles, and imprisons the reader in the mind’s darkest rooms.
A serial killer, branded by the press as the Iron Priest, marks each victim with another woman’s name. The trail leads to the sinister secret of the number 118...
FBI Special Agent Mike Northam pursues him through the shadowed labyrinth of Philadelphia—and into the darker labyrinth of his own mind. As reality blurs with hallucination, as killer and victim trade places, the deadliest danger lies not outside, but inside his head.
HALLUCINATION — a breathless psychological thriller with a shocking ending.
Author Alein Kentigerna, blood relative of a real-life serial killer, writes where blood drips, shadows whisper, and the devil waits. His fiction provokes, unsettles, and imprisons the reader in the mind’s darkest rooms.
387 pages, Paperback
Published October 3, 2025
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Alein Kentigerna
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October 27, 2025
Hallucination is a haunting descent into the fractured psyche of an FBI agent whose pursuit of a serial killer becomes a mirror to his own unraveling. Alein Kentigerna crafts a psychological thriller that is both forensic in its precision and gothic in its lyricism—a rare fusion of genre and literary depth.
Set against the shadowed corridors of Philadelphia, the novel follows Special Agent Mike Northam as he hunts the Iron Priest, a killer whose victims bear the names of other women, and whose crimes echo with ritualistic menace. But the true terror lies not in the killer’s trail, but in the slow erosion of Northam’s grip on reality. As hallucination and memory entwine, the narrative becomes a chiaroscuro of obsession, identity, and the porous boundary between hunter and hunted.
Kentigerna’s prose is taut yet poetic, laced with dread and dark beauty. His personal connection to real-life violence lends the story an unsettling authenticity, while his background in poetry infuses each scene with atmospheric weight. The number 118, a recurring motif, becomes a cipher for madness—a symbol that deepens the novel’s thematic resonance.
For readers drawn to the psychological intricacies of Thomas Harris or the emotional depth of Dennis Lehane, Hallucination offers a chilling, immersive experience. It is not merely a thriller, but a meditation on the mind’s capacity for both justice and destruction.
With thanks to Booksirens I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Set against the shadowed corridors of Philadelphia, the novel follows Special Agent Mike Northam as he hunts the Iron Priest, a killer whose victims bear the names of other women, and whose crimes echo with ritualistic menace. But the true terror lies not in the killer’s trail, but in the slow erosion of Northam’s grip on reality. As hallucination and memory entwine, the narrative becomes a chiaroscuro of obsession, identity, and the porous boundary between hunter and hunted.
Kentigerna’s prose is taut yet poetic, laced with dread and dark beauty. His personal connection to real-life violence lends the story an unsettling authenticity, while his background in poetry infuses each scene with atmospheric weight. The number 118, a recurring motif, becomes a cipher for madness—a symbol that deepens the novel’s thematic resonance.
For readers drawn to the psychological intricacies of Thomas Harris or the emotional depth of Dennis Lehane, Hallucination offers a chilling, immersive experience. It is not merely a thriller, but a meditation on the mind’s capacity for both justice and destruction.
With thanks to Booksirens I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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