- corpse that Rowenna just knows is hanging on the scarecrow post just ahead of her. Her dread of actually looking upward (as she had fell onto the ground) and seeing the corpse was expertly written.
And the author really brings modern day Salem to life in this story, too. The people that live there, the Wiccans and how they walk around wearing robes (cloaks), how Halloween is a big deal there… I never knew that Wiccans walked around wearing cloaks … it sounds cool!
I really liked the back story on the Harvest Man, a local legend and frightening figure known for bones being found in the cornfields. It brings a sense of history to the piece and makes it more interesting. And interesting is good. No one likes a boring
book and this is anything but that. It is fast paced with the story unfolding perfectly. The Harvest Man also brings in the somewhat supernatural element to the tale, although the killer is a normal human.
I like that this book had several possible suspects for me to pick from, each one with their own suspicious activities, including owning books on Satanism. Whenever I read these types of books I always try to guess who the killer is as I think that’s part of the fun. With this one I guessed correctly, although I don’t always get them right. This time I just put the clues together and got lucky.
Of course, there is a romance element in this book as well. That is done at a reasonable pace, not too fast and not too slow.