The Magpie Tree (Cornish Mysteries, 2) - Hardcover

Stansfield, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749021713 ISBN 13: 9780749021719

Publisher: Allison & Busby, 2018

Synopsis

Jamaica Inn, 1844: the talk is of witches. A boy has vanished in the woods of Trethevy on the North Cornish coast, and a reward is offered for his return. Shilly has had enough of such dark doings, but her new companion, the woman who calls herself Anna Drake, insists they investigate. Anna wants to open a detective agency, and the reward would fund it. They soon learn of a mysterious pair of strangers who have likely taken the boy, and of Saint Nectan who, legend has it, kept safe the people of the woods. As Shilly and Anna seek the missing child, the case takes another turn – murder. Something is stirring in the woods and old sins have come home to roost.

About this title

About the Author:

Katherine Stansfield is a novelist and poet whose novels The Visitor and The Magpie Tree have won the Holyer an Gof Fiction Award. She grew up in the wilds of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and lived on the west coast of Wales for many years.

Review:

“Stansfield gives a haunting evocation of a place and time when superstition and logic coexisted in uneasy alliance, and challenges the reader to decide which was more real.” (Publishers Weekly)

"This book won The Times’ Historical Book of the Month and is described as ‘creating a dark and macabre atmosphere’. It is well written, and the main characters come across well in all their variety." (Historical Novels Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0749021713
• ISBN 13: 9780749021719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288