Strange Fascination: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (The Essex Witch Museum Mysteries) - Softcover

Moore, Syd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786072572 ISBN 13: 9781786072573

Publisher: Point Blank, 2018

Synopsis

It’s summer in Adders Fork. The sun is out, the sky is blue and things are going swimmingly for Rosie Strange, thank you very much. The Essex Witch Museum has been relaunched with a new Ursula Cadence wing and picnic grounds. Takings are up and Rosie and curator Sam Stone are getting on very well indeed.

Then developers roll into the sleepy village to widen the road. When the centuries-old Blackly Be boulder, said to mark the grave of a notorious witch but now in the carpark of the Seven Stars, is moved, all hell breaks out. Within hours a slew of peculiar phenomena descends: trucks break down, blood seeps through walls, headless monks and spectral ladies are sighted in the dead of night, and the church clock strikes thirteen. And have gold coins, supposedly the lost treasure of Mockton Abbey, been discovered?

When a severed head is discovered atop the boulder, the locals can take no more and storm the Museum to demand someone take action. Can Rosie and Sam unravel the mystery? And what of the ancient treasure that could drastically change someone’s fortunes and offer a motive for murder?

About this title

About the Author

Syd Moore lives in Essex where the Rosie Strange novels are set. Previously to writing, she was a lecturer and a presenter on Pulp, the Channel 4 books programme. She is the author of the mystery novels The Drowning Pool and Witch Hunt.

Review

"Rosie is an unpretentious protagonist who is fun to root for as she suffers no fools.... the future adventures of the Great Essex Witch Museum should make for prime guilty-pleasure reading.” (- Kirkus Reviews about STRANGE SIGHT)

"I gleefully submitted to this tale of witchcraft, feminism, mysterious strangers, historical atrocities, plucky heroines and ghastly apparitions ― and came away more proud than ever to be an Essex girl. STRANGE MAGIC is the rarest of things: a book which sets out unashamedly to entertain, and does so with wit, style and erudition." (- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent)

"British author Moore (Witch Hunt) inaugurates a promising supernatural thriller trilogy with this suspenseful novel." (- Publishers Weekly about STRANGE SIGHT)

"Strange Magic is that rarest of things: a book which sets out unashamedly to entertain, and does so with wit, style, and erudition. I gleefully submitted to a tale of witchcraft, feminism, mysterious strangers, historical atrocities, plucky heroines and ghastly apparitions – and came away more proud than ever to be an Essex girl." (Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent)

"Confident, down-to-earth Essex girl Rosie is an appealing character, and there is plenty of spooky fun in this spirited genre mashup." (Guardian)

About this edition

• Publisher: Point Blank
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1786072572
• ISBN 13: 9781786072573
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448