The White Mask

Eight months after the Red Thread serial homicide left its mark on Everwood, the city is about to face something darker still.

When performance artist Jonah Mercer is found dead at the centre stage of the Marwood Theatre, his body arranged in a tableau no one who sees it will ever forget, Detectives Lina Cho and Michael Lau step into a crime scene that is less a murder and more a message.

What begins as a homicide investigation in the heart of Everwood's arts community quickly becomes something far larger. The staging is not random. The symbols are not decorative. And the killer is not finished.

Jonah Mercer had spent two years building a case that someone was willing to kill to suppress, one pointing toward shell companies, ghost identities, falsified records, and a criminal network buried within the city's own institutions for thirty years.

As evidence surfaces and the investigation widens, it becomes clear that the architect of it all is still watching. And still protected.

The White Mask is a richly layered crime novel about power, erasure, and the patience it takes to dismantle both, and a city slowly learning the cost of what it chose not to see.

The White Mask is the second Everwood homicide novel, following The Red Thread.