Bell, Book, and Murder: The Bast Mysteries
Like Susan Isaacs, Rosemary Edghill cast a keenly observant, friendly, yet faintly amused eye on an intriguing American micro-culture. Like The Witches of Eastwick, the Bast novels offer a very new view of the practitioners of a very old faith. Like Alice Hoffman, Edghill allows that there's...
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Like Susan Isaacs, Rosemary Edghill cast a keenly observant, friendly, yet faintly amused eye on an intriguing American micro-culture. Like The Witches of Eastwick, the Bast novels offer a very new view of the practitioners of a very old faith. Like Alice Hoffman, Edghill allows that there's still magic in the air.Rosemary Edghill's Bast novels are a real treat. Bell, Book, and Murder contains all three Bast novels, Speak Daggers to Her, Book of Moons, and the first softcover edition of The Bowl of Night (excerpted in USA Today).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312867683 (0312867689)
Publish date: August 15th 1998
Publisher: Forge Books
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Series: Bast Mystery omnibus
The first of these is Speak Daggers to Her. Bast is called by a friend of hers because she has found a friend dead. Bast starts looking into the death because a lot of the knowledge about who is responsible is in the pagan community, a closed community who don't really open up to outsiders. 3.5/5
This collection is proof that I do like mysteries sometimes! It was recommended to me by a teacher from high school, so it must be good right? It is, don’t worry. Title: Bell, Book, and MurderAuthor: Rosemary EdghillLength: 448 pages (paperback)Setting: Modern day, New York, our universe as far as I...
This is a collection of 3 mysteries, all featuring Bast and the NY Wiccan community. Between the first and the second, I read an introductory book about Wicca, which helped to make these books more understandable - so probably at least a little background would be useful.Each of the 3 books is a st...