Ventriloquists

**People in Bedfordshire are disappearing.** Two teenagers are kidnapped from a rural train station. A baby is taken from an urban market. Another baby is stolen from an encampment of Travellers. Two burglars, who have never met, break into a village home and one dies, killed by a giant wave of sea water that appears from nowhere. All the while a strange man obsesses with making a movie...whatever the cost to those around him. Another man appears to care only about the beautiful birds that he keeps in a cage... *But nothing is what it seems.*

Ventriloquists is a story about a man who discovers a liminal space between life and death. Around him bad people desperately try to defend their appearance of civility...*but to what emotional and physical cost?*

What does it mean when kidnappers are kidnapped?

Who are the puppets?

** * And who are The Ventriloquists?* **