Mr Cadmus
by Peter Ackroyd
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Pub Date Sep 21 2021 | Archive Date Sep 21 2021
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Description
Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.
Soon, long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem . . . and murder.
Advance Praise
‘A darkly witty fable ... a tale of vengeance that begins to take on the swerving, lurid velocity of a fever dream’
Spectator
‘Entertaining and wildly unpredictable, with a soupçon of the supernatural’
Daily Mail
‘Mr Cadmus is a treat of a tale. To a "polite" English village add a sprinkling of sinister. The result? Cosy and twisted, comic and gothic, with a show-stealing parrot’
JESS KIDD
‘Murderous intrigue plays out against a backdrop of curtain-twitching small-town banality in this playful black comedy’
Sunday Times
‘Follows the mysterious Mr Cadmus who hails from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of and turns life in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne upside down’
The Times, Best books to look out for
‘Blackly comic . . . as the body count mounts, Ackroyd’s novel moves beyond Midsomer Murders territory and into the realm of the truly weird’
Daily Mail
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781786898944 |
| PRICE | $22.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 192 |
