Time Shadows

A Detective's Memory is Both Her Greatest Gift and Her Deadliest Enemy

In 2093, Detective Rebecca Fletcher possesses a rare and powerful ability: her cognitive implant allows her to see "time shadows," translucent echoes of violent crimes that linger at crime scenes for up to 48 hours. For eight years, she's been the Echo Crimes Division's most successful investigator, using her Temp-Scan modification to witness murders as they happened and bring killers to justice.

But when tech mogul John Purchase is found dead in his penthouse, Rebecca's temporal reading reveals something impossible. She watches herself plunge a knife into his chest. With no memory of the crime and no way to explain the echo, Rebecca is thrust into a nightmare where every new case shows her killing again and again, crimes she has no memory of committing.

A taut psychological mystery wrapped in hard science fiction, perfect for fans of Philip K. Dick's reality-bending narratives and the detective noir of Altered Carbon.

Time Shadows will appear in an upcoming short story collection from Warner House Press in 2026.