Murder is Everywhere: YIPPIE, My Brand New Series Debuts This Week!!!

Saturday, January 31, 2026

YIPPIE, My Brand New Series Debuts This Week!!!

Jeff–Saturday

It’s been a long time in coming, but three days from now on February 3^rd, the New York City-based novel I’ve been working on for close to a dozen years will be published by Severn House in the UK and US. I couldn’t be happier with how things have turned out for A Study in Secrets, the debut novel in my brand new “The Redacted Man Series.

It is a very different sort of book from any of my fourteen Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis novels, because it’s driven far more by the nuances of its characters and the intensity of their individual backstories than the sort of grandiose settings and unique cultural ways at play in my Greece-based Kaldis stories.

In the opening scenes of A Study in Secrets my protagonist, Michael A, subtly offers his perspective on modern life and why he prefers a lifestyle reminiscent of elegant late 19^th Century living. That dichotomy provides a firm framework for moving the storyline forward at an ever increasing, more complicated pace. As for why I chose New York City over several other cosmopolitan international settings I’d been considering, I settled upon NYC because of how well I know the city and its secrets.

So, allow me to introduce you to Michael A, a Sherlock Holmes-worthy amateur sleuth possessing a complicated George Smiley secret-agent past. Michael is a true gentleman who lives a quiet, comfortable life since retiring from the intelligence services. Practically a recluse and partially handicapped, he spends his days imagining the lives of the anonymous people he watches in the park beneath the windows of his elegant New York City townhouse—number 221–his every need tended to by his housekeeper, Mrs. Baker.

Never does he interact with the souls he watches from above, until one day he realizes he must abandon his solitude to help a girl facing terrible danger. That decision plunges Michael into the New York underworld and back to using all the tricks of his former trade if he’s to keep himself and the girl alive.

As for reviews, the ones that have come out so far are terrific. And press interest has kept me writing essays and responding to Q&A interviews for weeks.

Now, all I need is for wonderful folk out there to buy a copy and bring great joy to both reader and writer. Here’s where to click to make all that happen. 

Thanks.

–Jeff