The third in the Essex Witch Museum series sees Rosie and Sam take on their biggest mystery to date...

It’s summer in Adders Fork. The sun is out, the sky is blue and things are going swimmingly for Rosie Strange, thank you very much. The Essex Witch Museum has been relaunched with a new Ursula Cadence wing and picnic grounds. 

Then developers roll into the sleepy village to widen the road. When the centuries-old Blackly Be boulder, said to mark the grave of a notorious witch but now in the car park of the Seven Stars, is moved, all hell breaks out. Within hours a slew of peculiar phenomena descends and, when a severed head is discovered atop the boulder, the locals can take no more and storm the Museum to demand someone take action.

Can Rosie and Sam unravel the mystery? And what of the ancient treasure that could drastically change someone’s fortunes and offer a motive for murder?

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'The rarest of things: a book which sets out unashamedly to entertain, and does so with wit, style and erudition.'

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‘It was fun to spend time in this little corner of Essex. There was some real threat and excitement as well as a few spooky chills. And proof, as if it needed repeating, that you shouldn’t mess with an Essex girl or her family.’

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'Strange Fascination is the most entertaining, intricate, ingeniously structured and beautifully written entry so far... Moore’s storytelling has once again achieved a level most other supernaturally-themed mysteries can only dark-dream about.'

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‘It makes for a thoroughly good read… Very much recommended.’

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‘Like an episode of Midsomer Murders, we get local rivalries, protestors, sexual undercurrents and nasty deaths – and that's even before the supernatural seems to breaking loose…  All in all I think this book – and the series its part of - an absolute triumph, with its own distinct voice, humour and – at the centre – a rather sweetly romantic story.’