![]() ![]() But it is not so, I thought, as we rode toward the Thorn: what you meet in the dark is yourself. “…Father had said to me once that the most fearful thing you could meet down a dark lane was another person. Torn between devotion to her brother and horror at what he’s become, Alice is desperate to intervene-and deathly afraid of the consequences.Īlice is soon on a journey facing the most darkest of evils… ones own self. Alice soon finds secrets nested within secrets: and at their heart, the poisonous truth: Matthew is a ruthless hunter of suspected witches. Upon returning home, Alice finds there is a new darkness in the town-frightened whispers are stirring in the streets: whispers of witchcraft, and of a book in which he is gathering women’s names. “The number of women my brother Matthew killed, as far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six.” Alice, an apparent prisoner as the story opens, portrays her brother as a misogynist serial killer above reproach. ![]() The story is narrated by his sister, Alice, who, pregnant, must return to her younger brother’s household after the sudden death of her husband in London. ![]() This thrilling debut novel by Beth Underdown is b ased loosely on the life of the infamous “witchfinder general” Matthew Hopkins of the mid 17th century. “This summer, my brother Matthew set himself to killing women, but without ever once breaking the law.” ![]()
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