The Devil and Miss Smy

<p><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The murderous fingers of Suffolk's witchfinders stretch still across the centuries.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>How can the evil accusation of a woman as a witch in 1647 unleash a series of events culminating in the unlawful death of an Ipswich magician's assistant in 1913? When two of the most notorious 17th-century witchfinders Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne visit the remote Suffolk village of Kenton their actions create a legacy that sees a man wrongly imprisoned for murder over 200 years later.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>In</span> the second of his Winifred Smy mysteries Michael Heath reintroduces the eponymous amateur sleuth who finds herself gradually entangled in murders old and new. Drawing on</p><p>acquaintances first met in the previous novella 'Killing Time in Kenton' a fast-moving narrative unfolds that ricochets between two parallel centuries until Miss Smy finally unmasks the real killer.</p>