Mouse

Discover for yourself why D. M. Mitchell is regarded as one of the UK's most imaginative and original new thriller writers. 'They played a cruel game of cat and mouse - but someone forgot to tell the mouse the rules...' 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 ?