Kill the Witch
By (Author) Judith Cook
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
31st December 1999
New edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
823.914
320
Width 111mm, Height 18mm, Spine 175mm
156g
In the autumn of 1592, Dr Simon Forman is invited to the country where the air should do him good after the stink of the city. But this rural retreat harbours deadly secrets. A group of morris dancers is intent on torturing Old Mother Saxton for witchcraft. Meanwhile, a marriage has taken place in the local church but not everyone wishes the newly-weds well, and when one is murdered who is to blame Is it a band of cut-throats from the outskirts of town, or a spurned lover much closer to home As one evil deed is followed by another the townsfolk believe they are under a witch s curse. Only Simon can reveal the truth, but will he be able to convince them they are wrong to kill the witch
Judith Cook was born and brought up in Manchester. She is a part-time lecturer in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre at Exeter University.