A stolen painting.A witness who forgets every fifteen minutes.A detective chasing a crime that shouldn't exist.When a priceless painting vanishes from a locked museum gallery-between security camera frames-Detective Valerie Lane is called to investigate the impossible.The only witness is Eugene Wexley, a retired librarian whose memory resets every fifteen minutes with mechanical precision. He remembers the theft clearly. Every time.A figure in a green cape. A door that shouldn't exist. A moment frozen at 4:17 a.m.As Valerie digs deeper, the evidence turns unsettling. Security systems that were never installed. Fabric that shouldn't exist in this decade. Records bearing her own name-dated months before she ever set foot in the museum.And then there's the pattern.The same time.The same knock.The same truth slipping through memory like water.With the clock closing in and reality itself bending at the edges, Valerie must confront a question no detective is trained to answer: What if the criminal isn't just ahead of her...What if it's her?The Forgetful Witness is a high-concept thriller blending crime, memory, and time into a tightly paced mystery where truth refuses to stay put-and forgetting might be the most dangerous thing of all.