Genre: Science fiction, noir
Cover Artist: Ryan Vance
Length: 381
Release Date: 26 June 2025
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Blurb
A dame walks into a detective’s office and asks him to find a missing girl. A familiar setup. You might have seen it before.
Or maybe not. Because this detective is woken every morning by a talking magpie, and the reflection he sees in the mirror doesn’t belong to him. And before he can start looking for this girl, he needs to find out if she ever existed in the first place.
Welcome to the nameless city, a fractured metropolis where geography is malleable and reality is relative. Where consensus is a memory, and memory is the least reliable currency around.
And wandering these shifting streets, Johnny Orange. A ‘sort-of detective’, trying to uncover the truth in a world where the concept no longer applies…
“A subversive take on the noir genre that will delight any reader that wants a novel that will stay with you even after the ending” – JamReads
About the author
Stefan Mohamed is an author, poet and performer based in Bristol, UK. His previous novels The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy and Falling Leaves are published by Salt. The House On Utopia Way is his first self-published novel.
