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Say That Again (Book One of the False Memory Cases): Five witnesses remembered the same sentence. Nobody actually said it. (A Police Procedural and Co
Paperback
Series: The False Memory Cases, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 10 2026
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five witnesses remembered the same sentence. Nobody actually said it.
Daniel Mercer is on trial for murdering his wife. Five witnesses place him at the scene. Each remembers the same threat:
You already had your chance.
Their certainty could send him to prison for life.
But Oregon State Police Detective Hannah Cole notices something troubling. The words they repeat in court are missing from their earliest accounts. Witnesses who once admitted they could barely hear the argument now recall every syllable.
Then a delivery driver discovers a recording he made on the night of the murder. His own voice contradicts the testimony he is about to give and describes another man near the house.
As Hannah retraces the witnesses' changing stories, she finds a connection outside the courtroom: a support group where frightened people were encouraged to make sense of what they saw. Someone earned their trust, guided their recollections and gave them a version of the crime they now believe.
With a murder trial underway, Hannah must uncover what happened before repetition becomes a verdict. But questioning the testimony means reopening every assumption about Lydia Mercer's death and drawing the attention of someone who knows how to make an honest witness sound convincing.
SAY THAT AGAIN opens The False Memory Cases, a police procedural and courtroom mystery series by Prasanth N.M. Set in Oregon's Willamette Valley, this psychological crime thriller explores manipulated testimony, misplaced certainty and the dangerous distance between remembering something and knowing it happened.
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