Echo Bloom: 1 (The Bloom Files)

A young woman is found dead after a routine train journey.
No witnesses. No obvious motive. Just a single, unsettling detail that refuses to be explained away.

As DCI Lena Hartley and her team begin to piece together the circumstances of the murder, it becomes clear that this was not a crime of opportunity. The scene has been left deliberately sparse, the evidence precise, the message quiet but intentional.

What starts as an isolated death begins to suggest something more disturbing, a pattern shaped not by chance, but by patience. Someone is watching. Someone is waiting. And someone understands exactly how meaning is assigned after the fact.

Set against the rain-dark platforms and waterways of Leeds, Echo Bloom is a psychologically driven crime thriller about interpretation, anonymity, and the danger of seeing patterns where none should exist - and of ignoring them when they do.

Some crimes don't demand attention.
They leave echoes instead.

Michelle Deluce writes stories that explore grief, belonging, and the quiet continuity of the soul. Fascinated by what exists beyond the visible world, she is drawn to characters who linger in the in-between, finding purpose where others might see only endings.

The Cottage by the Sea is a deeply personal novel, shaped by her belief that life is one chapter in a much longer story.

She lives in the UK.