About Black Toad
With more twists than a bag of fusilli, Black Toad is where dark comedy meets gothic revenge thriller, putting bodies in bags, burgers on the table, and three decades of misery put to bed. In beautiful rural Cornwall.
A true eye for an eye thriller!
A psychologist arrives in the humble Cornish village of Trebrowagh (Tree-Brow-ugh), his assignment, to bring closure to a cold missing child’s case. But in a place where silence has weight and smiles hide secrets, the doctor finds significantly more than faded memories.
Sent by Devon and Cornwall Police’s Historic Crime Division, the psychologist is tasked with conducting a series of interviews with a guarded and socially awkward local family. As part of a concerted effort to understand and unravel the mystery, he undertakes to get under the skin, and into the heads of Edern, Wenna and Jago Hawkey. As he digs deeper, long buried lies begin to surface as the echoes of 1991 refuse to stay dead.
Driven by trauma, survival, and a desperate need to reclaim his own identity, the psychologist’s quest for the truth may be his only chance to recover his voice, stolen from him as a child. But justice has its own strange way of creeping back to life. And , sometimes we should be very, very careful what we wish for…
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Author Bio:
Tom Herrington is a British author obsessed with blending dark comedy with twisty thrillers, set against the brooding landscapes of weirdly wild corners of rural Britain and France. His debut novel, Black Toad, is an example of what he calls Bumpkin Noir — Darker than Cosy Crime, yet funnier than Nordic Noir, and more twisted than either.
Born with a love for storytelling and a fascination with the eerie beauty of paths less trodden, he weaves tales where small-town secrets curdle into deadly revenge, and the lines between justice and madness blur.
Now living in Battle, East Sussex, when not writing, he’s usually wandering woodland paths with Filo the Labrador, plotting fictional crimes, creating or stealing the absurd and banal characters who dwell amongst us, or bribing ravens with biltong.
If you loved Slough House, Jamaica Inn, Tarantino, The Killing, or Hot Fuzz with a darker edge, you’ll want to follow his work.
email tom@tomherrington.org