I am thrilled to be taking part in the blog tour for
Blackstone Fell today. I received a copy of this book as part of the tour.
It’s 1930 and Nell Fagan is a journalist investigating a strange
mystery. Nell takes on a pseudonym and rents the Blackstone Lodge where, posing
as a photographer, she begins investigating the strange disappearance of two
men three hundred years apart. In 1606
Nell knows that this would be a huge story for her, but she
needs help and approaches fellow journalist Jacob Flint to help her persuade
Rachel Savernake to help. In the meantime, Jacob has an investigation of his
own that is to look into the strange world of seances and mediums. These two different lines of investigation will soon become
intertwined.
Blackstone Fell is a dark and haunting book that I absolutely
loved. I particularly enjoyed the setting in Yorkshire and the descriptions of
the sinister looking tower and wild moors. I also found the references to the seances very creepy, but it made the book so gripping and mysterious to read.
This is the third book in the Rachel Savernake series, but
it also reads well as a standalone novel. I actually haven’t read the first two
books yet, but they are going straight on my TBR now.
I highly recommend this, especially for fans of gothic and
crime fiction.
5 stars
