The dead don't lie. That's what Detective Mara Voss has spent nine years believing.
In a world where a dying brain's last dream can be extracted, rendered, and entered into evidence, terminal testimony has become the most trusted witness the justice system has ever had - more reliable than an eyewitness, more damning than a fingerprint. Mara has read hundreds of them. She knows exactly what a dying mind looks like when it's telling the truth.
Then Dana Whitfield is murdered, and her final dream shows something a terminal dream should never show: a door opening in real time, a face resolving with impossible clarity, a scene playing out like it was staged for the camera instead of collapsing the way dying minds always do.
Mara has told grieving families a hundred times that the shapes in a dream are never really a person. This time she isn't sure - and if she's right, the evidence an entire legal system now runs on can be forged. Somebody has learned how to plant a murder inside a dying woman's mind, and the six-hour window to prove it is always, already, closing.
Every Dream Is Evidence is a near-future crime thriller for readers of Black Mirror and Minority Report - about what happens to justice when the last honest witness turns out to be lying.
