BRAVO NOVEMBER by J J Dean
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
Detective Chief Inspector Adan Jones of East Sussex Police is one of the youngest officers to reach his rank. Methodical, driven and fiercely dedicated to justice, he has built his career solving the crimes that others couldn’t. But when a devastating personal loss pushes him to the edge of everything, it is not the job that saves him — it is something far older and far stranger.
A gold sovereign. A scar. And a sound he will come to know better than his own heartbeat.
Click.
The Bravo November series follows Adan as he discovers that the universe has chosen him for something that has never existed before — a detective who doesn’t just solve crimes, but travels back through time to prevent them. Armed with nothing but his instincts, a 1904 Edwardian coin and the unwavering loyalty of his partner DI Damon Blackmore, Adan moves between the present and the past, untangling decades-old injustices and correcting the outcomes that history got wrong.
But the universe didn’t give him a handbook. And it definitely didn’t warn him about Damon.
Because between the cold cases and the time jumps, life doesn’t stop being life. The everyday still shows up — ordinary, occasionally ridiculous and stubbornly persistent. There are arguments that don’t need to happen, expenses that probably shouldn’t be filed and moments of such genuine human warmth that you forget, briefly, that one of these men is carrying something the world has never seen before. The humour doesn’t undercut the darkness. It lives alongside it. Just as it does in real life.
But the universe doesn’t offer gifts without a cost. Every jump carries risk. Every correction creates a ripple. And somewhere beneath the everyday moments and the quiet loyalty of two men who would do anything for each other, a chain of events is quietly building toward something that Adan cannot yet see.
The story has a beat. It has a rhythm. It builds like a song you can’t get out of your head — quiet in the verses, devastating in the chorus, and always, always heading somewhere you didn’t see coming.
If Life on Mars crossed the streets of Brighton with the emotional depth of Ashes to Ashes, added a sovereign coin, a grief that won’t stay buried and a universe that refuses to let one man walk away — you’d be somewhere close to Bravo November. But only somewhere close.
Grounded in the streets, landmarks and atmosphere of Brighton and East Sussex, the Bravo November series blends crime fiction, time travel and human drama into something that is entirely its own. For readers of Peter James, Graham Bartlett and Stephen King’s 11/22/63 — but unlike anything else on the shelf.
Some detectives solve crimes. He solves the ones that already happened.
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