Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this book.
I was really excited to read this book - I loved The Lace Reader. While this is the second in that series, you definitely don't need to have read the first to enjoy this book. In fact, I remember very little of The Lace Reader - only that the names of some of these characters were familiar.
This book again takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, and involves both the famous witch trials that took place in the 1600s as well as a 25-year-old case of multiple murders of the so-called Goddesses, all descendants of those accused witches of long ago. Rafferty is back investigating this cold case as well as the death of a young boy who was bullying Rose, a suspect in the Goddess Murders as well as the boy's death.
This is a somewhat slow moving book but it still draws you in to all the characters. I really enjoyed this and feel like I learned so much about so many different subjects as well - the witch trial history, pagan/Christian beliefs, sound therapy, to name a few. There's a next book in the works and I'm excited to continue this journey!
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