Shadows

About the Book

Do not embrace the shadows
for they are all consuming
and devour the soul
leaving in their wake
nothing but a great well of
loneliness
from which we all drink
from time to time

-Richard Casteel, 1887

And so it begins. From the cobbled alleyways of Whitechapel to a fishing village on the Cornish coast. A series of brutal murders is committed, where the only clues to the killer’s identity are a copper coin and a poppy found at each crime scene. DCI Crawford assigned to the case soon establishes a link between a series of unsolved murders in 1888.

Four suspects, a deserted manor house, and shadows.

About the Author

Mike Carter was born in a small town near Nottingham. Upon leaving school, he joined the army and served abroad for several years. It was while serving overseas that he first took an interest in writing, progressing from short stories to song writing and performing. Upon returning to the UK, he worked in a hospital in the south of England before moving back to Nottinghamshire, where he wrote and published his first book. Shadows is the first novel in a trilogy.