Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery
Rosie Strange doesn’t believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It’s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run., Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There’s the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she
Rosie Strange doesn’t believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It’s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run., Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There’s the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there’s curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can’t decide if he’s tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating., It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelope them all.
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Don’t wake the witch! In her third novel, Syd Moore has delivered a brilliant tour de force that takes us from a wonderfully imagined Essex Witch Museum (wish there were such a place!) to a nightmarish Wickerman-esque climax. Rosie Strange is the kind of heroine for whom the description âpluckyâ might have been inventedâsmart, sassy, sexy, resourceful, inventive, articulateâand with the unlikely day job of a benefit fraud inspector. Which gives her the right sleuthing qualities when she sets out to find the bones of…
A real page turner! I absolutely loved this book. A great story, likeable characters and an opportunity to imbibe a bit of history too.I am not usually interested in anything ‘wictchraft’ but as the story unravels the author takes us on a non-preachy journey that guides us to the realisation that in reality the ‘witches’ persecuted in bygone days (and in current times across the world) were simply poor and (mostly) female. This is subtly woven in to the exciting plot line – I found I couldn’t put the…
Not a great novel This is not so much a story as the author looking for an excuse to shoe-horn her own personality and opinions into the lead character. Such a big chip on her shoulder about being an Essex girl – give it a rest, love, no one really cares. As such, it just feels like you’re being ranted at all the time. Secondary characters were unconvincing and dialogue totally unrealistic, unless that is how people speak in Essex? It was tiresome and I gave up halfway through.