Description
'Kitty?' Ray said. The singing stopped and the woman half turned towards him before vanishing from his sight.Six months after the horrific petrol bomb attack that left him severely burned, Detective Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage to contemplate his future. But all too soon the past darkens his stay there. For the cottage is often visited by the ghostly presence of Kitty Hallam, who was tried as a witch in 1643
With the help of local curate John Rivers and archive librarian Sarah Gordon, Ray slowly pieces together Kitty's tragic tale, played out against the menacing backdrop of the English Civil War.
But what Ray cannot even begin to comprehend is the role he himself played in sealing Kitty's fate more than three hundred years before he was born
With this haunting tale of two tragic lives, separated by centuries but bonded by events. Jane Adams takes a huge step forward as one of the most original and talented crime writers of today.
ISBN:9780330481328
