Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 25th Feb 2026 – Explora Books will be displaying Something’s Going On Here by Ruth Cherry, Ph.D., along with its subsequent volumes, during the London Book Fair, March 10–12, 2026, at Olympia London in Hammersmith. Presented as a continuing literary thriller, the series follows retired English professor Nick Sanders as his carefully ordered life gives way to suspicion, moral pressure, and consequences that stretch far beyond a single town—or country.

The opening book begins in Los Osos, a coastal California community that looks calm enough to disappear into. Cherry uses this setting less as scenery and more as a test case: what happens when a place runs on silence, shared denial, and private agreements no one admits to making? Nick, newly retired and deeply uncomfortable without routine, is not a natural investigator. That discomfort becomes the engine of the story. The book is less interested in who committed which act than in what it costs to ask questions in a town that prefers none.

Cherry’s background as a scholar shows in the voice rather than the structure. Nick narrates with an academic’s habit of reflection, constantly measuring experience against memory, literature, and personal failure. The result is a first-person voice that feels alert, uneasy, and often dryly funny. Threats arrive, alliances shift, and violence interrupts thought, but the series remains grounded in Nick’s internal accounting—what he notices, what he ignores, and what he wishes he had understood sooner.

As the series continues, the scale expands. Book Two pushes Nick beyond Los Osos and into international territory, where trust becomes transactional and survival depends on accepting roles he never wanted. Later volumes take the story further still, blending espionage, criminal networks, and secret preservation societies obsessed with controlling knowledge itself. Despite the widening scope, Cherry keeps returning to the same pressure point: how much of oneself can be compromised before nothing recognizable remains.

Across the series, Cherry resists tidy moral answers. Characters lie to protect towns, families, causes, and sometimes themselves. Institutions meant to maintain order do their own damage. Even antagonists are allowed their justifications, which makes Nick’s choices heavier rather than clearer.

At the London Book Fair, Explora Books will showcase Something’s Going On Here as a complete and evolving work—one that begins as a small-town mystery and grows into a meditation on power, loyalty, and the stories people tell to survive what they’ve done. Readers drawn to reflective narrators, layered suspense, and long-form character change will find a series that rewards attention without asking for blind faith.

Something’s Going on Here: The Beginning of the End Book 1, Something’s Going on Here Book 2: A Farewell to Harm, and Something’s Going On Here: Between Tides and Truth are available on Amazon and other major retailers.

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Explora Books is a book marketing firm located in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company specializes in self-publishing and marketing, taking pride in its exhaustive research and creative strategies that provide wider avenues for aspiring authors to gain recognition for their works. Explora Books aims to guide authors through the complexities of self-publishing, offering convenient solutions to navigate this process. The firm fosters and redefines creativity and innovation, setting new industry standards. Explora Books is dedicated to empowering authors globally.

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