The Craftsman
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Catching him will make her career - and change her forever.
August, 1999
On the hottest day of the year, Assistant Commissioner Florence Lovelady attends the funeral of Larry Glassbrook, the convicted murderer she arrested thirty years earlier. A master carpenter and funeral director, Larry imprisoned his victims, alive, in the caskets he made himself. Clay effigies found entombed with their bodies suggested a motive beyond the worst human depravity.
June, 1969
13-year- old Patsy Wood has been missing for two days, the third teenager to disappear in as many months. New to the Lancashire police force and struggling to fit in, WPC Lovelady is sent to investigate an unlikely report from school children claiming to have heard a voice calling for help. A voice from deep within a recent grave.
August, 1999
As she tries to lay her ghosts to rest, Florence is drawn back to the Glassbrooks' old house, in the shadow of Pendle Hill, where she once lodged with the family. She is chilled by the discovery of another effigy - one bearing a remarkable resemblance to herself. Is the killer still at large? Is Florence once again in terrible danger? Or, this time, could the fate in store be worse than even her darkest imaginings?
August, 1999
On the hottest day of the year, Assistant Commissioner Florence Lovelady attends the funeral of Larry Glassbrook, the convicted murderer she arrested thirty years earlier. A master carpenter and funeral director, Larry imprisoned his victims, alive, in the caskets he made himself. Clay effigies found entombed with their bodies suggested a motive beyond the worst human depravity.
June, 1969
13-year- old Patsy Wood has been missing for two days, the third teenager to disappear in as many months. New to the Lancashire police force and struggling to fit in, WPC Lovelady is sent to investigate an unlikely report from school children claiming to have heard a voice calling for help. A voice from deep within a recent grave.
August, 1999
As she tries to lay her ghosts to rest, Florence is drawn back to the Glassbrooks' old house, in the shadow of Pendle Hill, where she once lodged with the family. She is chilled by the discovery of another effigy - one bearing a remarkable resemblance to herself. Is the killer still at large? Is Florence once again in terrible danger? Or, this time, could the fate in store be worse than even her darkest imaginings?
This book could have been 5 stars. But I struggled a bit even to give it 4 due to 2 main points:
- the witchcraft: it's not that I don't believe in witches, and could completely go along with the coven and their gatherings, the healing processes, their belief that the spells work and can give protection or the contrary; but when they go into divination and seeing things in flames and smoke... that spoiled a bit of the book for me.
- the time spent on 1969: the story is quite interesting but as we already knew the ending, it took a bit of the suspense and excitement and so I felt it dragged a bit
But in the end (that I did not like ;)) it indeed is an excellent book!
- the witchcraft: it's not that I don't believe in witches, and could completely go along with the coven and their gatherings, the healing processes, their belief that the spells work and can give protection or the contrary; but when they go into divination and seeing things in flames and smoke... that spoiled a bit of the book for me.
- the time spent on 1969: the story is quite interesting but as we already knew the ending, it took a bit of the suspense and excitement and so I felt it dragged a bit
But in the end (that I did not like ;)) it indeed is an excellent book!
