The Curse-Maker (Maledictus)
Kelli Stanley
Works of: Fiction
Publisher(s): Minotaur (Macmillan)
The Curse-Maker is the sequel to he award-winning Nox Dormienda, the first book of the Roman noir series created by Kelli Stanley (City of Dragons). Wedding impeccably researched history to prose and themes reminiscent of classic hard-boiled writers, The Curse-Maker is a thrilling and suspenseful journey into a dark corner of Roman Britain you’ve never seen before. When Roman physician Arcturus and his stunning wife, Gwyna, arrive at Bath for a holiday, a dead body is floating in the sacred spring. It turns out that the murdered man is a curse-maker whose invocations actually come true, and as murder follows murder, it looks like there’s now a curse on Arcturus. This is an exciting and exotic story of a spa town where people go to heal…only to wind up dead. And it takes the doctor-investigator on a dark road — into Roman cemeteries, silver mines, and underground water tunnels — to comprehend the twisted mind of a killer bent on revenge.
Sub-genres
Other books by Kelli Stanley
City of Sharks
City of Ghosts
City of Secrets
Memory Book
First Thrills: High Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Writers
City of Dragons
Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping)
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