Dr Jeremy J Noad launches historical time-travel mystery Original Echoes

Dr Jeremy J Noad has released Original Echoes, the second Echoes Mysteries novel, set between 1962 and Victorian Blackpool. The book follows a former wartime intelligence officer probing a secret government project beneath the Winter Gardens as the story links memory, control and a hidden piece of Blackpool history.

Why it matters: - Original Echoes expands the Echoes Mysteries series with a time-slip thriller that ties Blackpool’s past to Cold War-era fears about control and obedience. - The novel uses a secret government project and a Victorian-era device to frame questions about memory, identity and institutional power. - The book is available now in Kindle and paperback on Amazon, with more information on the Echoes Mysteries series.

What happened: - Dr Jeremy J Noad introduced Original Echoes, the second novel in the Echoes Mysteries series. - The story follows former wartime intelligence officer Frederick “Fred” Langley after he becomes a journalist and is sent to Blackpool to assess Project EUNOMIA. - The novel is set across 1962 and Victorian Blackpool. - The plot centers on a secret government project beneath the Winter Gardens.

The details: - Project EUNOMIA involves an unusual Victorian apparatus found under the Winter Gardens. - The machine still draws power despite its age. - Government officials believe the apparatus was designed to influence behaviour through sound, atmosphere and psychological suggestion. - The project is linked to an effort to encourage public obedience during Cold War uncertainty. - Fred’s assignment becomes harder as records conflict, earlier test subjects appear to have vanished, and his own memories no longer match documented events. - The machine’s history leads Fred to a performance at the Winter Gardens in 1895 that was documented but later disappeared from Blackpool’s collective memory. - When the machine is activated, Fred is sent through a fracture in time into Victorian Blackpool. - There, Fred encounters the Welcroft Society, an influential group that wants to use the apparatus to enforce its ideas of social and moral order. - Clara Langdon is at the center of the society’s plans, and her voice is needed for a ritual she has not chosen freely. - Fred must connect the machine, the society and a concealed part of Blackpool’s history as the world around him grows unstable.

Between the lines: - The setup turns Blackpool’s landmarks into more than scenery. The Winter Gardens becomes the hinge between civic memory, political control and private identity. - The story appears to use time travel less as fantasy spectacle and more as a way to test how institutions shape what people remember and believe. - Dr Jeremy said he focuses on the work rather than success, and that awards and reviews matter after the main task of writing a book readers want to finish. - His background in Lancashire and familiarity with Blackpool’s theatres, hotels, piers and changing identity informs the series’ setting. - Fractured Echoes, the first book in the series, was published in September 2025 and won a silver medal in the Best Debut Novel category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, while also becoming a finalist in the 2026 Page Turner Awards. - Original Echoes also works as an entry point for new readers.

What's next: - Original Echoes is positioned to deepen the wider series by revealing Fred’s earlier role in the events behind the central mystery. - Dr Jeremy J Noad continues to build the Echoes Mysteries around historical research, memory and psychological suspense. - The author also writes the two-book Echoes Mysteries series and co-authors The Sales Professional’s Handbook series.