The Memory Market

She investigates stolen memories for a living. She can't explain the one she doesn't remember making.

Iris Calloway is a forensic memory investigator - one of the few people alive who can authenticate whether a human memory is real or fabricated. In a world where neural extraction has made privacy obsolete, her work keeps the system honest. Her own mind, by a biological anomaly, can never be read.

When a routine authentication job produces an impossible result - a future memory, encoded with her own neural signature, showing a crime that hasn't happened yet - Iris finds herself inside an investigation that leads from the backstreets of Bermondsey to the laboratories of New Geneva, and toward the one sealed space in her own mind she has never been willing to open.

The evidence points to MnemoCorp, the corporation that built the technology the world runs on. The trail leads through a stolen predictive model, a dead researcher, and a man named Ashby who has been watching Iris for sixteen years. And at the centre of everything, a five-year-old girl in red shoes - and the memory Iris has been carrying without knowing it.

The Memory Market: Borrowed Time is a near-future thriller about the limits of what memory can verify, the cost of what it cannot, and the difference between knowing something and being ready to know it.

Perfect for readers of Blake Crouch, Tana French, and Claire North.