Agnieszka Dudek. She once looked death straight in the eye. As a teenager, she was rescued by the police at the last moment from the cellar of a brutal tormentor. Today she is an acclaimed writer. She is trying to put the past behind her and is still learning to live a normal life.
Robert Wójtowicz. He once came close to death, and the memory of those events still fills him with paralysing fear. Today he is a highly regarded photographer, but he struggles with numerous phobias. He rarely leaves his home, which has become his only safe haven.
Marek Rosiński. Death once shattered his safe life. It took his father – a police officer who died tragically. Today he is a police officer himself, holding the rank of inspector.
One day, death returns to finish what it started years ago.
This time it has a name: Copycat.
Mieczysław Gorzka was born in 1969 in Środa Śląska and has lived in Wrocław for many years. An economist by training, he has always had a passion for writing above all else. He works in a variety of genres, but it is his crime novels that have earned him the greatest acclaim from readers.
He is the creator of Detective Chief Inspector Marcin Zakrzewski, who appears in the novels Martwy sad (2019), Iluzja (2019) and Totentanz (2020), Polowanie na psy (2021), Dziewięć (2021), Lilie (2022), Nie-Anioł (2024) and Zła przeszłość (2025), as well as of Laura Wilk and Maciej Lesiecki, the protagonists of Poszukiwacz Zwłok (2023) and Wilczyca (2024).
His standalone works published to date are Krwawnica (2022), Burza (2023), Rok zmian (2025), Spadek po mojemu (2026) and, co-written with Michał Śmielak, Cienie dawnych grzechów (2024).
The novels Klątwa (2024) and Przedostatni smok (2025) were self-published by the author in order to support several small independent bookshops he is friends with.