A slick, smart, stylish - and shocking - thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction. On a remote farm, an elderly woman takes a fall outside and, unable to move, is consumed overnight by two of her pigs. The victim was the renowned and reclusive photographer Sophie Bertilak - and the first photo she ever took remains her most infamous: a missing girl who was never seen againMost strangely, inside the house, all the photos have been removed from their frames... Forensic veterinarian Cooper Allen is called in for the post-mortem - and becomes obsessed with the victim, her family, and the crimes she brought to light decades ago. As Cooper pulls on a dark thread of deception and double-lives, she begins to unravel the case - as well as herself... **** PRAISE FOR BUCHANAN: ''Dark, daring and deeply unnervingGreg Buchanan is hugely talented, and Consumed will shock, shake, haunt and thrill you.'' CHRIS WHITAKER ''Utterly gripping, exquisitely written'' THE G