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"Finely observed beautifully written" Daily Mail on The Secrets of Life and Death
Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and newborn baby make it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical crime scene, one that is interwoven with an unsettling local legend of witchcraft and unrequited love. Yet there is more to the case than a four-hundred-year-old mystery. The owners of a nearby cottage are convinced that it is haunted, and the local vicar is being plagued with abusive phone calls. Then a tragic death makes it all too clear that a modern murderer is at work...
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Rebecca Alexander verliebte sich schon als Teenanger in die fantastische Literatur und schrieb ihren allerersten Roman bereits im Alter von neunzehn Jahren. Sie studierte Kreatives Schreiben an der University of Winchester und wurde für ihre Texte bereits mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Rebecca Alexander lebt mit ihrer Familie in North Devon.
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"Finely observed beautifully written" Daily Mail on The Secrets of Life and Death
Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and newborn baby make it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical crime scene, one that is interwoven with an unsettling local legend of witchcraft and unrequited love. Yet there is more to the case than a four-hundred-year-old mystery. The owners of a nearby cottage are convinced that it is haunted, and the local vicar is being plagued with abusive phone calls. Then a tragic death makes it all too clear that a modern murderer is at work...
