THE
CURSE OF PENRYTH HALL by Jess Armstrong won
the Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur First Crime Novel Competition and was a
LibraryReads selection for December 2023. It is an extremely
atmospheric mystery involving a gruesome death in the Cornish countryside.
Young Ruby Vaughn is an American Heiress finding her way at the end of WWI; she
has settled into helping an elderly bookseller and delivers some books to Ruan Kivell,
a man her employer calls a folk healer and one whom the locals call the Pellar
due to his extraordinary powers. When the Lord of the manor’s mutilated body is
found, there is much talk of the return of a curse. Although they don’t believe
in curses, Ruby and Ruan gradually uncover sinister secrets and past family relationships as they attempt to puzzle
out what is happening. Library Journal praised this debut’s “elegantly
crafted, supernatural-tinged plot” and gave THE CURSE OF PENRYTH HALL a starred review.
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