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The Impossible Witness
Paperback
Series: The Dark Investigations of Adrian Vale, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A man claims he witnessed a brutal attack on October 31st-every detail, every sound, every impossible moment.
But that same night, he was lying in a hospital bed, recovering from heart surgery, monitored and immobile, with no chance of leaving.
Adrian Vale has faced difficult cases before, but never a memory that shouldn't exist. When retired watchmaker Emilio Ranieri appears at his door-terrified, shaking-he describes details only Adrian and Mira Lentz could know. Details never shared, never written, never spoken outside their loft.
If Ranieri didn't witness the attack, someone made him remember it.
As Adrian and Mira investigate, the anomaly deepens: an erased name hidden beneath decades-old ink, a brass gear dropped outside their home, a watch repaired by a hand that should no longer exist. Every clue points to a workshop that has quietly shaped lives, timelines, and truths for generations-one that may still be operating in the shadows of Verona.
And someone is watching them.
Waiting.
Moving pieces they can't see.
Why was Ranieri chosen?
Who erased the name that links past and present?
How many memories in this case don't belong to the people who carry them?
And what does Zero gain by rewriting the past one mind at a time?
The deeper Adrian goes, the more the investigation begins to feel like something else entirely.
A message delivered through a memory that was never his.
Step inside the mystery. But be careful what you remember.
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