Witch Hunt
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected May 5, 2026
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- $9.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
‘Enriched by historical data, this spellbinding police procedural has a vicious sting in its tail’ – Kirkus Reviews Starred Review
How can you get away with murder in a city full of cameras? London’s DSI Grace O’Malley must solve a puzzling case in this highly addictive blend of gritty police procedural and creepy historical horror by dynamic father-daughter duo Richard and Bernadette O’Rawe.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live . . .
Detective Superintendent Grace O’Malley of London’s Metropolitan Police receives a dubious phone call. A self-proclaimed witch hunter, using the alias of Matthew Hopkins, the notorious seventeenth century witchfinder general, is leading her to his first victim.
Someone is exploiting the bloody history of the witchfinder to start a modern-day witch hunt, making sure their debut murder of a TV-medium is broadcast worldwide during Halloween night on Westminster Bridge.
The clock is ticking for this high-profile case. Grace needs to find out who is behind the premeditated crime before the witch hunter can strike again. But the more she investigates, the more she finds herself in an intricate web of lies, deceit and threats – a case even more complex and incredible than originally thought.
Fans of British crime thrillers in the style of Mick Herron, Ian Rankin, Harlan Coben, Val McDermid and Denise Mina will binge this first in a series with a gripping plot full of shocking twists and turns.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Richard O'Rawe (the Ructions O'Hare novels) teams up with his daughter, Bernadette, for this sinuous police procedural, the first in a new series. London DS Grace O'Malley receives a call from a man who identifies himself as Matthew Hopkins, a real-life 17th-century religious zealot known as the Witchfinder General who killed more than 100 alleged witches across England. The caller threatens to "unleash his wrath" on the entire world, then tells Grace where to find her husband, assistant police commissioner Dominic Boswell. Grace rushes to the coordinates—an apartment in Mayfair—where she discovers Dominic cheating on her with a sex worker. Horrified, Grace is then called to the scene of an apparent Hopkins-inspired murder on the Thames, in which a woman was burned alive in a boat. Fearing that she may have a serial killer on her hands, Grace quickly shifts her search for the Hopkins copycat into high gear, but her inquiry gets complicated when forensic evidence suggests the killer might be a very powerful public figure. The O'Rawes know how to keep readers in suspense, serving up surprising twists and copious cliffhangers on the way to a satisfying solution. This bodes well for future series installments.
