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It's the summer of 1976 and Vince Moody is a quiet and unassuming projectionist at the run-down Empire cinema in the small town of Langbridge in the middle of the Somerset Levels.His life is a drudge, and he's going nowhere; the only female attention he gets is a stream of cruel jokes and jibes from the Empire's cleaners, and especially from the obnoxious Monica Andrews. But his life is about to change dramatically when he sees and falls secretly in love with Laura Leach.Laura lives all alone in an 18th Century folly known as Devereux Towers; a brooding old building sitting alone in its field a few miles from Langbridge. Recently returned to the area to bury her father and having inherited Devereux Towers, Laura is something of a recluse. The local children call Laura the 'Witch of Devereux Towers'; some people call her 'damaged goods'. She too is lonely and unassuming, a desperately troubled woman haunted by her dark, secret past. Haunted by what lies behind the locked, blue-painted door in Devereux Towers...Then Laura Leach meets Casper Younge. He's handsome, well-spoken, gentle and loving, and Laura falls head-over-heels in love with him. Vince Moody is devastated to have lost the woman of his dreams, but he soon discovers that Casper Younge is not all that he appears. He's blackmailing the Empire's manager, Martin Caldwell, for one thing; and who is the attractive woman Vince sees Casper meeting in Glastonbury? Martin Caldwell is having serious troubles of his own - his affair with Monica Andrews the cleaner has gone horribly wrong. His world is falling apart, and the last thing he wants is a visit from Casper Younge dredging up a past he thought he'd left behind.Then two people go missing, presumed dead.Soon, everyone is caught up in a dangerous spiral of events that draws them inexorably into a world of jealousy, deceit, passion, blackmail and murder, where the hunter becomes the hunted, the mice turn on the cats.Set against the impressive yet claustrophobic landscape of the Somerset Levels, Mouse is a chilling exploration of the corrupt depths people will sink to in the name of revenge, power, greed and love and is D. M. Mitchell at his imaginative best.

From the bestselling author of 'MOUSE' and 'THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED'Susan and Paul Carmichael's world is devastated when a small-time burglar and drug addict, Eddie Hull, brutally murders their only child, young student Becky Carmichael.Consumed by grief, they both struggle to come to terms with their tremendous loss. Their fragile relationship under mounting pressure, Susan begins to have dreams about her daughter. She is convinced these are not ordinary dreams; Becky is calling out to her for help. But this revelation only serves to drive a further wedge between the grieving couple.In desperation, Susan trawls a number of so-called psychics, but is bitterly disappointed by charlatans and fraudsters. When she finally starts to accept that the dreams are a natural part of the grieving process, she is meets the mysterious Silas Blake.He tells her things no one else knows about Becky. Tells her that Becky's soul is trapped and cannot move on, and that there is an island in the Hebrides called Connalough Point where they will be able to help her. Paul is naturally sceptical, but agrees to go to the island for the sake of their marriage.They discover Connalough Point is a very secretive place, and every precaution is taken to ensure no one outside learns about its existence. Here they meet Helen Blake, Silas's wife, and the dour MacLeod brothers. They also meet the soul fixer...But slowly they discover the shocking secrets of Connalough Point, the real reasons they are there. With events spiralling down into deceit, terror and murder, it quickly becomes not only a battle for survival, but the steep path to a devastating truth...With his acknowledged individual storytelling expertise, D. M. Mitchell pens yet another taught psychological thriller with a difference that twists and turns to its deliciously devious and unexpected conclusion.

He was looking for a woman of spirit. He found her...Toby Turner didn't expect to stumble upon the remains of a human skeleton, washed down from the cliff top by a recent landslip.He runs a small bookshop in the quiet seaside town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. His life's not quite on track; his bookshop's not doing too well, for one thing, and he's not sure his relationship with his girlfriend-cum-fianc Trisha is going anywhere either - at least, nowhere she would like it to go.Toby takes a walk along the Blue Lias cliffs on Monmouth Beach to think things through, and here he finds the body of a woman; a woman, it transpires, who was murdered in 1978.The gruesome discovery and the resulting media attention he receives would have been hard enough to cope with, but he soon suspects the woman who keeps coming into his shop is the woman from the Blue Lias, that he is being haunted by the very woman he found on the beach.What's more, he finds himself falling for her, eventually feeling he is unable to live without her. Is she real, or is he imagining things? His strange obsession starts to have a negative effect on his life and his health, which begins to deteriorate.He decides to try and solve the mystery of her death and why she chose him, of all people, hoping by discovering what happened to her all those years ago they can both find peace. And so begins Toby Turner's bizarre journey of discovery that will lead him into very dark and dangerous territory. Not only has he uncovered a body, Toby Turner had inadvertently scuffed away the thin covering of dirt from dark, long-held secrets that will lead him into a corrupt world of vice and murder. His life will never be the same again.D. M. Mitchell pens yet another taut murder mystery complete with supernatural chills, peopled by an array of larger-than-life characters, deliciously devious twists and turns, with every seemingly disparate thread coming neatly together in a trademark surprise ending that will leave you speechless...

This 2020 edition is a fully revised and corrected edition of the bestselling 2013 publication.If you're a fan of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels, James Bond, or the historical novels of C J Sansom, Rory Clements and SJ Parris, you'll love this. From the bestselling author of 'The Soul Fixer' comes D. M . Mitchell's Amazon Bestseller, 'Blackdown', introducing Captain Thomas Blackdown - A Darcy with bite, a Bond in breeches...From reviews of BLACKDOWN: "Blackdown was another jewel - kept me guessing until the unbelievable climax.""Suspense, thriller and mystery all wrapped into one. I read thus in one sitting.""The plot is filled with suspense the reader feels compelled to solve...""I really could not put this book down."'THE MOST SAVAGE OF BEASTS IS TO BE FOUND WITHIN THE HEART OF MAN.'It is 1817, Regency England. Thomas Blackdown, a thieftaker and ex-soldier, receives word that his brother and father are in deep trouble and need his help. But Blackdown is a man that harbours bitter memories; a man banished from his homeland because of a terrible accident, and so is reluctant to return to his ancestral home in Somerset.However, once there he discovers that his brother has been savagely murdered - torn to shreds, some say by a mythical creature the locals call the Blackdown Beast. Thomas Blackdown does not believe in any creature of fantasy, and is determined to bring to justice his brother's murderer, encouraged by his brother's fianc , Julianne Tresham, and aided by the faithful servant Addison.But Blackdown is quickly drawn deep into a complicated web of deceit, power, greed and murder involving Lord Tresham - Julianne's father - and the cold Sir Peter Lansdowne. What is the mysterious Lupercal Club? Why do ex-soldiers go missing from Commodore Pettigrew's travelling theatre? What strange thing is happening in Devilbowl Wood where Blackdown's brother was found mutilated? And does a savage, hellish creature really prowl the night?Soon, Blackdown must fight for his own life and face up to his demons both imaginary and real. He will need all his wits and skills to survive if he is ever to discover the shocking truth behind the evil that has penetrated as far as the government itself.Set in Regency England following the end of the Napoleonic wars, 'Blackdown' is D. M. Mitchell at his creative best, crafting a thoroughly researched, believable world of strange, larger-than-life characters, with his trademark intricate plotting and surprise ending, it is a novel that is a rollicking good thriller, horror and adventure story rolled into one.And in Thomas Blackdown, Mitchell has given us a hero like no other before - a Darcy with bite, a Bond in breeches...

In November 1974, a young woman called Sylvia Tredwin goes missing. Nobody has the faintest idea where she's gone. She was wearing only a light skirt and T-shirt, didn't take anything with her, no suitcase, nothing. Simply went out one dark evening and never returned.Some say she went off with another man, because there'd already been talk in the small Somerset village of Petheram that she's that type of woman - attractive, flirty with it, dressed too provocatively. But her husband, Bruce Tredwin, doesn't believe a word of the callous whisperings of the locals as they gossip about his outsider wife. So he never gives up searching for her.A fortnight later on a stormy winter's night he finds her. She's naked in a place called Flinder's Field, wandering aimlessly, badly bruised and in total shock. But what she says to him will astound everyone. She says she's been abducted by aliens, and she was never to be the same again, with tragic consequences...Forty years later and George Lee is coming back to Petheram, the village of his birth. His estranged father has died and there are things his mother would like him to sort out. George hates the village, couldn't wait to get out and make a life for himself as a writer of cheap and gory thrillers. He notices that Adam Tredwin, Sylvia Tredwin's son, has also returned to Petheram. As children, the two used to be friends, briefly, before Adam's father was killed in the 1980s by a hit-and-run driver and Sylvia took him away from the village.But it's when George begins to tidy out his father's loft and slowly begins to learn more details about Sylvia Tredwin's disappearance that he starts to uncover dark secrets and hidden truths - discoveries that will peel back the decades to reveal a labyrinthine world of madness, jealousies, deceit, lies and murder. He little knows his idle quest to find out the truth behind Sylvia Tredwin's abduction will have profound and dangerous consequences for all concerned.D. M. Mitchell pens yet anther taut psychological thriller and murder mystery, set in the claustrophobic world of a small Somerset village, with a bevy of believable characters and a plot that twists and turns in Mitchell's inimitable style to a deliciously shocking and unexpected conclusion.