Overview
The body of former astronaut Eloise Birch is found hanged at Smithfield Market. Detective Inspector Nikki McDonald links the murder to another, that of feminist artist Tilly Webster. The crimes suggest the killer is obsessed with witchcraft and Nikki calls on the expertise of outspoken historian Anna Carr. Nikki’s somewhat dysfunctional team is completed by cynical Sergeant, Dave Finch, and ultra-keen DC, Chloe Wong. Anna confirms the perpetrator’s knowledge of witches as well as links with Biblical misogyny. Then the first communique arrives. The killer gives himself the alias ‘Master Illusionist’, an anagram of ‘Malleus Institoris’ – the title and author of the most infamous of all witchcraft books – the Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches. Anna begins to piece together the killer’s motives and next moves, as he targets more prominent women and then Anna herself. Combining a compelling plot with themes exploring the Early Modern witch trials and the current incel and misogynist movements, The Hammer of Witches is a gripping psychological thriller with a protagonist forged in the cauldron of today’s cultural politics.
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Grant
Publisher: The Choir Press
Imprint: The Choir Press
Volume: 2
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.434kg
ISBN: 9781789634525
ISBN 10: 1789634520
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 31 October 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Author Information
Author Website: http://https://www.facebook.com/DrPeterGrant
Dr Peter Grant is a teacher and author and one of the UK’s leading practitioners in public and charitable funding. Peter worked for the National Lottery good causes before devising the world’s first masters-level programme in grantmaking and philanthropy at Bayes Business School part of City University, London, where he also teaches modules on the history of charity and women in popular music. He has published widely on philanthropy, history (notably the period of the First World War) and popular culture. His book on grantmaking, 'The Business of Giving’, was published in 2011. Peter has also written the definitive study of charity during the Great War, 'Philanthropy and Voluntary Action in the First World War', published in 2014 and this was followed by 'National Myth and the First World War in Popular Music' in 2017. His first novel featuring historian Anna Carr, The Bodleian Sequence, was published by Choir Press in 2022. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, trustee of the Amy Winehouse Foundation, former Chair of the Voluntary Action History Society and President of Kennington Cricket Club.
