Hesket Nicola Griffith Canongate FF|FFP|FFS Paperback 2025

Hesket Nicola Griffith Canongate FF|FFP|FFS Paperback 2025Unsettling things are happening in rural Norfolk. At first glance, Hesket is a blink and you miss it village, a seemingly unremarkable place that belies its horrifying history. There are tales of witch trials and death, of a curse that lies dormant in the landscape where the women condemned as witches are buried, and a great flood that long ago washed Old Hesket away. In present day Hesket, a new development is planned for this woodland. Following

surely Dan Larkin would be an expert in outfoxing the police

Inspector Maigret

A boarding house full of druggies

she can't resist investigating

On a bright sunny day in Port Silver

Fifty years ago

One of the four remaining guests is a murderer - but who

was inspired by a true story: Decades earlier

that he can understand human language and even more shocking

the place he was most hoping to escape

But then again

He too is pondering his own exit from this life