Memory, the Lying Witness

In the Federated States of Borealia, Evan Dake fights a losing Social Security disability appeal, claiming his mind is ravaged by nightmarish hallucinations of murder. When an investigator discovers that his vivid recollections perfectly mirror the unsolved crimes of the infamous serial killer known as the Sculptor, the line between victim of illness and predatory imitator dissolves. Dake, a nobody who worshipped the killer, has rebuilt his fragile identity from stolen atrocities, and now his own memory becomes the ultimate lying witness—delivering a testimony of guilt that forensic truth refuses to confirm.