Is it the devil's work, or something more sinister?

A vast sky swollen with rolling clouds threatens to swallow the flat landscape beneath. The Fens are a place where lone trees stand tall, acting as defiant guardians to a land of mystery where marsh reeds emerge from the water to rattle and creak in the wind. It is here where two old farm workers meet their death. Speared with a pitchfork, their throats severed with a scythe left embedded in the ground. A method of murder dictated by old country folklore, where the spirit is anchored to the earth, never to be set free.

The investigation by Detective Inspector Linda Bundy and her team is met by a wall of silence.

The locals, versed in their country ways, are too frightened by superstition to say anything. Witchcraft? Folklore? Or is there a more modern explanation?

If you enjoy reading British detective murder mysteries, then Be Afraid of the Witching Hour is right up your street. Fire up your Kindle and immerse yourself in this dark, cosy murder mystery, with a slice of black humour, driven by characters you'll enjoy getting to know. If you haven't read them before, this is the twelfth book in the DI Jack Gilbert series, when in 1965, a financial whizz with an abacus in Whitehall came up with the idea to combine five forces in the Cambridgeshire area and create the Mid-Anglia Constabulary, with its HQ in Huntingdon.

Read this British detective murder mystery and before you know it, you'll become addicted to the series.


AMAZON REVIEWS of the Jack Gilbert series

Cannot wait for the next one. Doug Walker

Amazing. I want more in the Jack Gilbert series. Peter Calder

Masterful storytelling. Fred Timberlake

Brilliant books, keep them coming please. Ruth Barnett

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