The Consensus Fallacy

Everyone remembers her murder. She’s still alive.

In Oyster Harbor, Maine, everyone seems to remember what happened to Clara Wynn.

The murder. The funeral. The trial. The conviction.

There’s just one problem.

Clara Wynn is very much alive.

When journalist Elena Marsh begins investigating the impossible story, she discovers a community united by memories that cannot be supported by a single authentic record.

Witnesses describe events they insist they attended. A newspaper article appears to document a murder that never occurred. Details circulate from person to person until nobody can remember where they originated.

And the more Elena investigates, the more certain everyone becomes.

But Clara’s supposed murder isn’t the only mystery in Oyster Harbor.

Sixteen months earlier, Clara’s closest friend, novelist Ruth Friedman, disappeared.

Ruth’s husband, a respected university psychiatrist, maintains that she left voluntarily. Her belongings remain in their home. Her unfinished manuscript sits abandoned. And Clara is convinced her friend would never have vanished without an explanation.

As Elena follows the evidence, two disturbing questions begin to emerge.

How can an entire town remember something that never happened?

And why does nobody seem particularly concerned about the woman who actually disappeared?

In a town where collective certainty carries more weight than documented fact, discovering the truth may be less difficult than convincing anyone to believe it.

The Consensus Fallacy is the first novel in Consensus Reality, a five-book psychological suspense series exploring false memories, manufactured certainty, and the dangerous distance between what people believe and what can be proven.

Everyone remembers. Nobody agrees.