Static

By Brian E. Niskala

Everything you remember can be taken from you. She should know - she's the one who's been taking it.

Detective Mara Voss doesn't just investigate memory crimes. She uses them. A borrowed skill here, a stolen instinct there - illegal, untraceable, and always deleted after the case closes. It's how she gets results nobody else can.

Then the bodies start turning up. Three, then four, then more - Weave-implanted men and women scraped clean, their memories harvested and sold to buyers who'll never have to look their donors in the eye. The victims all have one thing in common: nobody was looking for them. Nobody but Mara.

But the deeper she digs, the closer the case creeps toward her own life - toward a cartridge she bought eight months ago and never questioned, toward a company built on the promise of ethical memory, and toward a truth about her sister's death that Mara paid, three years ago, to never have to remember.

To close the case, she'll have to open the one file she's spent three years keeping locked - and live with whatever she finds inside it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HD734C4Q
• ISBN13: 9798190274141
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"