Blackstone Fell

Autumn 1930. As the nights draw in, Jacob Flint attends a seance. He's intending to investigate fraudulent mediums - but then a ghost appears with a message from the spirit world: 'Felix Reilly murdered me.' The same evening, Rachel Savernake takes on an intriguing case. Ulick Quayle was investigating the three-hundred-year old story of The Witch of Blackstone, burned at the stake for her supposed murder of the local Lord. Now Ulick's body has been found on bleak and eerie Blackstone Moor, his corpse ripped to pieces. Some of the villagers believe the Witch of Blackstone has returned from the dead. The police suspect an escaped inmate from a nearby asylum. But Ulick's sister is convinced that the culprit is someone much closer to home - and she's employed Rachel to investigate. As Rachel starts to unravel a bizarre crime with its roots in the deep past, her friend and sometime lover Jacob is on a similar trail of murder and witchcraft. And both are leading to the ancient stone castle of Blackstone Tower... Blacktone Fell explores the shadowy borderlands between spiritual and scientific; between sanity and madness; between sin and virtue. This is a mystery involving clerics, historians, scientists... and people who believe that Blackstone is a place controlled by dark and demonic forces, which might just take human form.

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Summary

Rachel Savernake investigates a bizarre locked-room puzzle in this delicious Gothic mystery from the winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.

1930. Nell Fagan is a journalist on the trail of a intriguing and bizarre mystery: in 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and 300 years later, it happened again. Nell confides in the best sleuth she knows, judge's daughter Rachel Savernake. Thank goodness she did, because barely a week later Nell disappears, and Rachel is left to put together the pieces of the puzzle.

Looking for answers, Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell in Yorkshire, with its eerie moor and sinister tower. With help from her friend Jacob Flint - who's determined to expose a fraudulent clairvoyant - Rachel will risk her life to bring an end to the disappearances and bring the truth to light.

A dazzling mystery peopled by clerics and medics; journalists and judges, Blackstone Fell explores the shadowy borderlands between spiritual and scientific; between sanity and madness; and between virtue and deadly sin.

Praise for Martin Edwards:

'Martin Edwards celebrates and satirises the genre with wit and affection. . . He leaves you wanting more.' The Times

'A pitch-perfect blend of Golden Age charm and sinister modern suspense.' Lee Child

'Edwards has managed, brilliantly, to combine a Golden Age setting with a pace that is bang up-to-date.' Peter James

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Historical fiction.