Circle of the witch

by George Straatman

After a controversial shooting ends Raymond Saddler’s LAPD career, he accepts a sheriff’s position in the small town of Quinsett, believing that the isolated and sedate town will be the ideal place to rebuild his shattered life. Instead, he discovers a long-harbored secret, a dormant evil and an adversary, who may well be history’s greatest villain…or most tortured and aggrieved victim.
As Quinsett is plunged into a complex and savage nightmare of violence and death, Saddler quickly gleans that the façade of small town Americana is a shallow illusion. Though fifty years dead, the specter of Jeniah Lightcrusher continues to haunt the isolated town. The victim of a vigilante murder, the purported witch vowed vengeance against the offspring of those who took her life. As Saddler grappled with the mounting carnage, he begins to discern a pattern that suggests this oath of vengeance is not simply the stuff of urban myth, but a festering blood debt woven into the tapestry of the town. Haunted by the demons of his own inadequacy and confronted by an evil that defies logic, Raymond Saddler is unaware that the one he loves and trusts the most has ushered him into the Circle of the Witch.

650 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 2, 2013

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Reviews

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this dark intense horror novel. This veteran novelist personalizes each character with much thought, I often envisioned the implications of what it would be like to view the events and ramifications through their eyes, the resulting impact they had in they're thought process and actions. The central character unleashes many horrifying and devious manifestations of evil.. A fascinating aspect of the novel is the author elaborates on the reasons why the central character Jeniah became the embodiment of evil, personally it is important to know the dynamics of how she became evil rather then she just exists with no explanation why. Given the extreme burden she had to endure observing the atrocities of mankind, it is highly probable that any human would be radically altered in their perceptions. The ending is explosive, my thoughts on how to stop the evil witch and the aftermath of eradicating her turned out to be much different. One of the few horror novels I have read that deviates from what readers expectations have become. Would be awesome on the silver screen. Recommended to any avid reader..