' The number of women my brother Matthew killed is one hundred & six'THE PAGE-TURNING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER'A compelling debut from a gifted storyteller' Sarah Perry author of The Essex Serpent When Alice Hopkins' husband dies in a tragic accident she returns to the small Essex town of Manningtree where her brother Matthew still lives But home is no longer a place of safety Matthew has changed & there are rumours spreading through the town whispers of witchcraft & of a great book in which he is gathering women's names To what lengths will Matthew's obsession drive him? And what choice will Alice make when she finds herself at the very heart of his plan? Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2017 & a Spring 2018 Richard & Judy Book Club pick this beautiful & haunting historical thriller is perfect for fans of Sarah Waters The Miniaturist & Burial Rites' Vivid & terrifying' Paula Hawkins author of The Girl on the Train'A clever pacey read that blends truth & fictionwhat elevates this book above other historical thrillers are the questions that Underdown asks about the nature of power fear & how easy it is to become complicit in terrible acts' The Times'A chilling creeping novel with very obvious parallels to more modern forms of witch-hints & misogyny but is still firmly rooted in an England torn apart by civil war & gripped by religious fervour' Red'A haunting brooding debut' Psychologies' At once a feminist parable & an old-fashioned check-twice-under-the-bed thriller' Patrick Gale'A richly told & utterly compelling tale with shades of Hilary Mantel' Kate Hamer author of The Girl in the Red Coat' Anyone who liked Cecilia Ekback's Wolf Winter is going to love this' Natasha Pulley author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street' Beth Underdown grips us from the outset & won't let goat once a feminist parable & an old-fashioned check-twice-under-the-bed thriller' Patrick Gale author of Notes from an Exhibition 'A tense surprising & elegantly-crafted novel' Ian Mc Guire author of The North Water' Beth Underdown cleverly creates a compelling atmosphere of dread & claustrophobia Even from the distance of nearly four hundred years her Matthew Hopkins is a genuinely frightening monster' Kate Riordan'A tense surprising & elegantly-crafted novel' Ian Mc Guire author of The North Water' Superb dark terrifying & utterly compelling' Tracy Borman'A novel for our times Beth Underdown's The Witchfinder's Sister explores another time & another place to lay bare the visceral horror of what a witch hunt truly is' New York Times Book Review' Entertaining & thought-provoking with a valuable message for our own times' Washington Post ...

On the veranda of a great New Orleans house now faded a mute & fragile woman sits rocking & the witching hour begins Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling & the creation of legend Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches
- a family given to poetry & incest to murder & philosophy a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful dangerous & seductive being A hypnotic novel of witchcraft & the occult across four centuries by the spellbinding bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles
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The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless The Last 10 Seconds & The Final Minute I had a simple choice Stay here & almost certainly be discovered Or get up & run'THE WITNESSWhen Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered she suddenly finds herself in danger Taken to an anonymous police safe-house it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack THE DETECTIVEDI Ray Mason of Counter Terrorism Command is a man with a controversial past but his effectiveness at getting results means that he's now been given the task of preventing the attack from taking place But can he be trusted & does he know more about the attack than he's letting on?THE KILLERIn the safe-house Jane is trying to piece together a description of her lover's killer But what she doesn't know is that the killer has already found out who she is & where she is hiding & now he's coming for her ...

The gripping new race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author of Relentless The Last 10 Seconds & The Final Minute I had a simple choice Stay here & almost certainly be discovered Or get up & run'THE WITNESSWhen Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered she suddenly finds herself in danger Taken to an anonymous police safe-house it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack THE DETECTIVEDI Ray Mason of Counter Terrorism Command is a man with a controversial past but his effectiveness at getting results means that he's now been given the task of preventing the attack from taking place But can he be trusted & does he know more about the attack than he's letting on?THE KILLERIn the safe-house Jane is trying to piece together a description of her lover's killer But what she doesn't know is that the killer has already found out who she is & where she is hiding & now he's coming for her ...