Time in the Mirror offers the reader intrigue and suspense while showing how a close knit community "where doors are still left unlocked at night" is shaken to its roots when one of its own is accused of such a heinous crime.

Superintendent of Middlefield Schools, Colin Winslow, suffers an allergic reaction while driving home from a school board meeting. He uses an epinephrine injector device he is testing for his inventor friend, John Burns, but to no avail. Winslow collapses and dies as his car smashes the railroad crossing gates and collides with a train.
New York detective Rick Canyon is rousted out of bed by Roger Greenfield to go to the accident scene at the request of Winslow's wife, Alex.
Coroner Bill Crandell's autopsy shows that chocolate milk Winslow had been drinking was laced with penicillin,...