Las Vegas, Nevada. K. M. Sorbello has released the first three books of the Tommy Somebody series, a young adult mystery and adventure sequence following a teenager whose emerging abilities draw him into criminal investigations. The opening titles are The Awakening, The Golden Egg (Part I), and The Golden Egg (Part 2).
How The Awakening Introduces Tommy Somebody
The Awakening introduces Tommy, a fifteen-year-old in a small Midwestern town, along with his friends Samantha and Susan and Detective Isaac Banks. The book follows the abduction of one of Tommy’s friends by a serial killer and the search that follows. Tommy’s visions serve as both a tool for the investigation and a source of doubt about what he is actually seeing.
That doubt carries the first book. Readers meet a protagonist who cannot yet separate what he perceives from what he imagines, and the adults around him wrestle with the same question every time he speaks up.
What the Golden Egg Case Adds to the Tommy Somebody Series
The Golden Egg (Part I) takes place a few months later and continues Tommy’s working relationship with Detective Banks. A burglary at the home of a local millionaire, a hit-and-run that leaves one of the thieves hospitalized, and a stolen Fabergé egg move a small-town case onto international ground. This first part also introduces characters who carry forward through the remainder of the series.
The Golden Egg (Part 2) completes the case. The second part covers the death of the hospitalized suspect, the search for and recovery of the egg, and the arrival of a Russian oligarch who claims descent from Anastasia Romanov and believes the egg holds evidence supporting that claim. The book also introduces Marta, a former KGB operative who becomes Tommy’s mentor and protector.
Splitting one investigation across two volumes is a structure Sorbello returns to later in the sequence. Later installments carry Tommy’s cases well beyond the Midwest, into settings that include Greece and Russia.
Why Sorbello Blends Real History With Fiction
In the introductions to the books, Sorbello notes that the series is written as fiction that deliberately borrows from the record. Real names, locations, and historical events appear throughout the narrative, and the author states that the connections drawn between them most likely never existed. He describes the approach as a way of blurring the line between fact and fiction for the reader.
Historical detail does real work in the plotting. The Fabergé egg at the center of the second and third books ties a suburban burglary to a century-old succession question, which is how a local case ends up drawing attention from outside the country.
The three opening books of the Tommy Somebody series sit within young adult mystery, crime fiction, and paranormal adventure. They are built to be read in order, with each title picking up threads the previous one left open.
