The Fairies' Great Swindle

THE GREATEST LITERARY MAGICIAN RETURNS WITH A NEW AND SPECTACULAR WORLD FULL OF ILLUSION AND MYSTERY.

From the author of the internationally acclaimed “Victorian Trilogy,” with over 600,000 readers.
If the heart wishes to believe in something, reason cannot prevent it.

London, 1922. Alan and Violet Schofield are England’s leading experts in magical photography; a rogue couple taking advantage of the fever for capturing fairy beings that spread throughout gullible London society after the Great War, following the Cottingley girls’ having convinced none other than Conan Doyle that they had photographed fairies. Bombs no longer fall from the sky, and the entire city awaits its turn at the famous Schofield studio to obtain the prized photograph that will prove to family and neighbors that one’s attic or garden has been blessed with the presence of one of these mysterious creatures.

Unfortunately for the Schofields’, their luck will change when a new client knocks on their door: the feared and powerful Percival Drake, lord of London’s underworld. A man of great cunning, brutally ruthless, and above all, a man who does not believe in magic. As they embark on a dangerous race against time to save their lives, Alan and Violet will discover that to outwit a gangster who doesn’t believe in fairies, they must be smarter than the fairies themselves. Only Félix J. Palma could combine fairies and gangsters in a novel brimming with love and magic. A delightful and thrilling cross between Peter Pan and Peaky Blinders.

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