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...

Join the 150,000+ readers who have downloaded a Mitchell novel in the last twelve moths alone and discover why he's being hailed as one of the UK's most imaginative writers of psychological thrillers. "The sins of the father... Are there to be exploited..." It began with a funeral... Mickey Craddick has long been the town of Overthorpe's Mr Big - a man with his dirty finger in all sorts of dirty pies, from drug-pushing to extortion and blackmail. But now he is dead and the residents of Overthorpe start to breathe a sigh of relief. None more so than three men, close friends since childhood....

Toby Turner didn't expect to stumble upon the remains of a human skeleton, washed down from the cliff top by a recent landslip, because until now nothing exciting had ever happened to Toby Turner. 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-fiance Trisha is going anywhere either - at least, nowhere she would like it to go. Trisha was introduced to Toby by his best friend Mark Boothman, and now he's beginning to wish he...

D. M. Mitchell has been compared to Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, M. R. James, Linwood Barclay, Umberto Eco, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens and many others. Discover for yourself why D. M. Mitchell is being regarded by some as one of the UK's most original and exciting writers of psychological crime thrillers and supernatural fiction. '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...

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...

"Hell, sir, I haven't seen anything like this in all the time I've been on the force." He took a cigarette from a silver case, offered me one, which I refused. "Are you sure you don't want one?' he said as he flicked his lighter into life and touched the flame to the end of the cigarette. "You might find you'll need it." It begins in the year 1929. DCI Thomas Rayne discovers the decomposed and dismembered body of an unknown man in a Suffolk barn, a strange black symbol painted on the barn wall. A crime that Inspector Rayne never solved. A case he would go to his death calling his Curse....