I have the cover for the next Delamere Files novel, ‘A Case of Make Believe’, and you can see it further down this post. The book will be available in the next couple of weeks. As with all of my novels, it will be available in paperback from Amazon, in Kindle format and available in Kindle Unlimited. The series is turning out to be very popular, I am pleased to say. People like a good mystery, historical accuracy and an occasional love plot.

Here’s the blurb, and beneath that, a link to the full cover, again designed by Andjela.

A Case of Make Believe Blurb

Jack is left in charge of the agency, its new staff, and a missing person case that arrives unexpectedly from the Cheap Street Mission. A fourteen-year-old boy has vanished, and his older brother, Simeon, is desperate to find him. At first, the only clue is a cutthroat razor, but as Simeon’s past unfolds, so the case darkens with complications.

As they race to find the boy, Jack and Will’s journey takes them from the unbelievable illusions of Piccadilly’s Egyptian Hall to an opium den in Whitechapel, and from a molly house to the sewers deep beneath London. What the Delamere detectives don’t know is that if they fail to find the boy in time, the razor will play a gruesome part in a very public death.

Kidnapping, illusions, East End rent boys, and murders in the style of Grand Guignol, the fifth book in the Delamere Files series is the darkest yet. The books should be read in order.

Click the image to reveal the full cover and let me know what you think. (Ps. I know there should be a hyphen in Make-Believe, but there is a reason there isn’t which will become clear when you read the story. Inserts wink emoji.)