Forest of the Mind (Alexis Forrest FBI Thriller 8) by Kate Gable-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 31, 2026

She just got engaged. Now she might lose everything—including her mind.

When a federal judge’s fifteen-year-old daughter vanishes from a parking garage, FBI Agent Alexis Forrest is pulled from her engagement celebration into a nightmare that strikes too close to home.

The missing girl, Sarah Whitmore, was researching her mother’s environmental crime cases when she uncovered a pattern linking dozens of powerful corporations to a decades-long conspiracy. One Reddit post later, she disappeared.

The note left on her abandoned car is chilling: “Some secrets are worth dying for.”

As Alexis follows Sarah’s digital trail from Hartford to Boston’s elite academic circles, she uncovers a conspiracy that’s been hiding in plain sight for decades. Someone has been using psychology as a weapon—manipulating witnesses, discrediting whistleblowers, and ensuring that powerful corporations never face justice.

And now they have Sarah.

With her forensic psychology PhD, Alexis is uniquely qualified to understand how a criminal mind works. But this adversary is different. He doesn’t just think like her—he thinks about her. And he’s been waiting.

Every day Sarah remains missing, the trail grows colder. And every day Alexis spends on the case, her fiancé Mitch grows more distant. He’s watching the woman he loves disappear into her work again, and he’s given her an ultimatum she can’t ignore.

Because in this deadly game of cat and mouse, Alexis isn’t just hunting a kidnapper. She’s hunting someone who knows exactly how to break a mind—and he’s already chosen his next victim.

From the bestselling author of the Alexis Forrest series comes a pulse-pounding psychological thriller about the thin line between justice and obsession, and the terrifying power of a mind that can make you doubt your own reality.

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REVIEW FOREST OF THE MIND is the eight instalment in Kate Gable’s contemporary, adult ALEXIS FORREST: FBI MYSTERY THRILLER, focusing on FBI Special Agent Alexis Forrest. FOREST OF THE MIND can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines sis revealed where necessary.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from first person perspective ( Alexis Forrest) FOREST OF THE MIND follows the search for Sarah Whitmore, a missing fifteen year old girl whose mother is a well -respected federal judge. FBI Special Agent Alexis Forrest has been assigned to the case but upon Sarah’s rescue, and the ensuing legal investigation, the entire case begins to spiral out of control when more potential players are revealed, and another missing person needs to be found.

Meanwhile, Alexis’ relationship with her now fiancé Mitch is fracturing, and our heroine finds herself pulled in too many directions. Mitch is tired of taking second and often third position in Alexis’ life, and in this, our couple must come to a decision about their future going forward. Mitch continues to point out that Alexis is not the only FBI profiler but our heroine is unable to step back and watch someone else do the work.

The world building follows several intersecting pathways, all of which culminate in our heroine’s desperate need to uncover the truth. As the number of suspects and probabilities grow, Alexis is once again caught between doing everything alone, or with a team of people who know their job.

The secondary and supporting characters include Alexis’ long suffering boyfriend Mitch, SAC Temecula; Judge Patricia Whitmore, Sarah Whitmore, and several members of law enforcement. The requisite evil has many faces.

FOREST OF THE MIND is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, money and obsession, relationships and love. The character driven premise is edgy and dramatic; the romance is struggling; the characters are determined, desperate and energetic.

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Reviewed by Sandy