When Roman physician Arcturus and his stunning wife Gwyna arrive at Bath for a holiday, a dead body is floating in the sacred spring. It turns out that the murdered man is a curse maker whose curses actually come true, and as murder follows murder, it looks like there’s now a curse on Arcturus.
An exciting and exotic look at the sideshow world of fake healers, ghost-raisers and medicine men, "The Curse-Maker "is the story of a spa town where people go to heal. . . only to wind up dead. And it takes the doctor protagonist on a dark road—into Roman cemeteries, silver mines, underground water tunnels, and the twisted mind of a killer bent on revenge.
Widowed at twenty-four by her husband Horace’s motorcycle accident, Maggie Murphy is broke, unemployed and all the cosmetic companies say your skin starts drying out at twenty-five. She finds a part-time job which turns into full time when she finds the mutilated body of the man she replaced behind the office dumpster. …
view 29 more similar booksKelli Stanley shows herself, once again, to be the most remarkable writer of historical noir going. The Curse-Maker has an absorbing mystery, a compelling protagonist, and a unique setting, and they are all buoyed up by Stanley’s exhaustive research that informs and strengthens the story without ever bogging it down. This is how historical mystery should be done.
Source: Book CoverNo one blends authentic period detail with hardboiled crime like Kelli Stanley. This is Sam Spade in a toga!
Source: Book CoverI loved The Curse-Maker – a compelling, engrossing tale from Kelli Stanley who’s carved out her own unique genre of Roman Noir. Don’t miss this one.
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