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Today we are taking part in the Random Things blog tour for Twist of Fate by D.L.Mark. We received a copy of this book as part of the tour.
Set in the Fens,
that area of England steeped in myth and legend, D.L.Mark leads us into an
extraordinary adventure encompassing the present and the past.
In the hamlet of
Little Mercy Cambridgeshire, stands a dilapitated church with a gloomy history
of extreme martydom. From the steeple, many years ago, a young theology
student, Jethro, launches to the ground but survives with a life-changing head
injury. Thirty years later this church, St Wendreth, is the trysting place for
Marguerite and Sam on whom tragedy also falls.
When, one
afternoon, successful London businesswoman Claudine is on her way out of her
grand office building, she is confronted by her troubled brother Jethro who she
thought was at their hitherto family home, a small cottage near Little Mercy.
Seconds later Jethro is the final victim to be stabbed to death by a crazed
homeless man covered in scars.
Claudine is
shocked. What reason had this man to kill? Claudine travels to Little Mercy to
unravel the mystery. There she is plunged into a dark world of medieval religious beliefs, medicines and medieval
cults. Hounded by a suspicious but troubled detective Billy Dean and his
partner Helen Savage, Claudine stays with Jethro`s erstwhile neighbours’ Peg
and Everitt in the village. Suspicion is everywhere and death is never far
away.
D.L.Mark summons
the dark history of the Fens, giving it a truly eerie atmosphere that, combined
with the story itself, makes the book unputdownable.
A compulsive read.
Reviewed by Liz
