Karen Maitland is fast becoming one of my must-read writers. Her historical potboilers are full of addictively gruesome details, supernatural mayhem, characters so vibrant they slap you in the face, and a sense of tension that is sometimes unbearable. In all, rollicking good reads! The Falcons of Fire and Ice is superb, and like herContinue reading “The Falcons of Fire and Ice by Karen Maitland”
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The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth Speller
A gentle mystery this, at least at first glance – but as you read, the strands of the character’s lives enmesh you in a web of violence, duplicity and sacrifice. Underneath the crumbling edifice of a world fractured by war, its class system rotting, is the imprint of a long forgotten labyrinth, a pagan metaphorContinue reading “The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth Speller”
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