Get wrapped up in the witch trial of the century
4 stars I picked this novel because the striking cover caught my eye (who doesn't love a corvid?!?) and thought a modern witch trial had promise. This book does not disappoint. In it we follow Matthew, a heart surgeon who thinks quite a lot of himself, who is selected as a juror in an Edinburgh trial of two girls (alleged witches), believed to have killed another. This is the second novel on the trot narrated by an egomaniac man but it's used to good effect, here, as he gradually becomes unhinged by witchcraft/devil worship elements of the trial. Or, could he be a victim of the girls from the dock? It's a real curiosity watching Matthew dodge his normal life and become so wrapped up in the trial and the possibility of these girls scaring another to death. If Perry Mason was crossed with Alfred Hitchcock directing a witch trial film of old, this book might be the result. Tense, unexplainable, well crafted, Witch Trial had me hooked wanting to see where it might lead. Just ...
