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Sarah Painter is the author of the bestselling magical novel, The Language of Spells, and its follow-up, The Secrets of Ghosts.

She has written 'book club' fiction with atmospheric settings and historical elements (In The Light of What We See and Beneath The Water), and a 'wonderfully dark and twisty' supernatural thriller, The Lost Girls.

Sarah's latest venture is an exciting new urban fantasy series, Crow Investigations. Yes, she finds it hard to stick to one genre!

Before writing books, Sarah Painter worked as a freelance magazine journalist, blogger and editor, combining this 'career' with amateur child-wrangling (AKA motherhood).

Sarah lives in rural Scotland with her husband and children. She drinks too much tea, loves the work of Joss Wh ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 50,618 ratings · 2,981 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Night Raven (Crow Investigations #1) 3.77 avg rating — 7,672 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Mark (Crow Investigations #2) 4.01 avg rating — 4,447 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ward Witch (Unholy Island #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,044 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Light of What We See 3.94 avg rating — 3,719 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of Spells (The Language of Spells #1) 3.89 avg rating — 3,552 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fox's Curse (Crow Investigations #3) 4.06 avg rating — 3,323 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pearl King (Crow Investigations #4) 4.19 avg rating — 3,091 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Copper Heart (Crow Investigations #5) 4.11 avg rating — 2,586 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book Keeper (Unholy Island, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 2,469 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secrets of Ghosts (The Language of Spells #2) 3.90 avg rating — 2,566 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sarah Painter answered Robin S's question: Hi Sarah, Just finished The Magpie Key, will there be any more Cow Investigation books? are are so many stories to be told. Thank you for the books, lovely to read about my city, even if I cam from Hackney :-) R Hi Robin! Thank you so much for reading and for your kind words. I have been focusing on my Unholy Island trilogy (set in the same 'universe' as the Crow books but with new setting and characters), but I'm planning to write a new Crow Investigations See Full Answer
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“Throwing things is very good for the soul.”
― Sarah Painter, The Language of Spells

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“Strangers are just friends we don't know yet.”
― Sarah Painter, The Secrets of Ghosts

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“Maybe it’s the coma, but I’m genuinely happy to be here.’ ‘You don’t have to do that, you know.’ ‘Do what?’ ‘Assume that everything is different now. You’re still the same person you always were, you’ve just got some gaps to fill in. You mustn’t think that you’re starting all over again.’ ‘Is”
― Sarah Painter, In the Light of What We See

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