CONSUMED 🔗

"Compelling (...) it often feels less like a detective story than folk horror, or the chronicle of a descent into madness." 🔗

“At all times, it’s paranoid and unsettling. Its uniquely ominous atmosphere, drawing freely from horror and summoning up a sense of weirdness that often verges on the hallucinatory, gives Consumed a compelling quality that stands out in a crowded genre. Stylish and unsettling, Buchanan is forging a path through crime fiction that’s all his own, and it feels like he’s only just begun” - THE HERALD

On a remote farmstead in Lethwick, celebrated photographer Sophia Bertilak collapses outside her home, only to meet a horrifying end—devoured by her own pigs. What seems like a tragic accident quickly takes a darker turn when investigators discover that every photograph Sophia ever took has been removed from its frames, as though her past is being systematically erased.

Forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen is called in to perform a post-mortem on the pigs, but the case soon spirals beyond the expected. Drawn into the mystery of Sophia's life, Cooper becomes fixated on the photograph that launched Sophia's career—a haunting image of a missing girl who was never found. As the investigation deepens, Cooper finds herself enmeshed in the lives of Sophia's children, Matthew and Lucy, and the dark history that haunts the town of Lethwick.

The relentless rain and decaying streets of Lethwick mirror Cooper's own psychological disintegration as she delves further into the enigma surrounding Sophia's death. Faint traces of something sinister begin to surface, hinting at long-buried secrets tied to the town’s past. As Cooper's obsession with the case intensifies, the lines between investigator and victim blur…