Black Toad

In 1991, a mute boy vanished on Bodmin Moor.
Thirty years later, the village that buried the truth is still watching. Based on a true story, small town dread just got nasty.

When a forensic psychologist is sent to Trebrowagh — a remote Cornish village steeped in superstition and silence — he’s tasked with reopening a cold case no one wants The disappearance of a vulnerable boy last seen in the care of the Hawkey family.

The brief is simple. Re-interview the witnesses. Close the file. Help the village move on.

But Trebrowagh does not move on.

As the investigation deepens, memories fracture. Conversations repeat themselves. Voices surface where there should be none. The psychologist begins to suspect that the case isn’t just following him — it knows him.

Someone in Trebrowagh remembers who he really is.
And they’ll do anything to keep the past exactly where it belongs.

Told across two timelines that collide in devastating fashion, Black Toad is a darkly comic, psychologically charged British gothic thriller — atmospheric, unsettling, and rich with rural menace — perfect for readers who like their suspense smart, strange, and just a little bit wrong.

Thirty years of lies are about to surface.
And justice — like Trebrowagh — isn’t always just.