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I did buy the book earlier and have started reading. Have changed rating to reflect where it is going for me.
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Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
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2024
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The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)
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2023
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The Sacred Well Murders (Mary Wandwalker #1)
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2022
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The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
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Jung: A Feminist Revision
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2001
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C.G. Jung in the Humanities: Taking the Soul's Path
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2010
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From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
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2000
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The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung
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2011
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Remembering Dionysus
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2016
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Jungian Literary Criticism: The Essential Guide
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First draft done!
Hurrah, today 21st April 2024, I finished first draft of Mary Wandwalker 4. Currently titled MURDER BY AERY SPIRITS.
Not sure whether to modernize spelling of Aery to Airy. Older spelling points to Shakespearean echo in the story.
I wonder if anyone out there has advice?
Not sure whether to modernize spelling of Aery to Airy. Older spelling points to Shakespearean echo in the story.
I wonder if anyone out there has advice?
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"This novel doesn’t just entertain, it compels you to care. The Swan Lake Murders weaves suspense with emotional resonance, grounding its mystery in the personal lives of its characters. I could feel their fear, their desperation, and their fragile ho"
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"Mary Wandwalker is unlike any detective I’ve met in fiction. She is sharp, flawed, vulnerable, and profoundly human. Her courage doesn’t come from being invincible, but from facing her own fears while trying to protect others. That makes her not just"
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What wonderful and well thought out response. I am so grateful!
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"From the very first chapter, I could sense that The Alchemy Fire Murder was not going to be a typical crime novel. Mary Wandwalker is not a slick detective or hardened investigator; she is an archivist, a scholar, and a woman who carries with her the"
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Thank you so much. Two other novels follow this fragile family.
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“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“The fire on the mountain.” That was Anna. “Alchemy,” she said. “I feel it singing in my bones.”
“Singing?” Mary would never understand Anna. The young woman turned away.
Wiseman’s reply was tinged with respect.
“That great pair of alchemists, Francis Ransome and Roberta Le More, believed the work they did affected the world’s spirit, the anima mundi. The Native Americans they met believed they too could and should interact with the Great Spirit. They lived with reverence for the land and all its peoples, the ancestors, the animals, the rocks, the trees, mountains.”
Mary’s jaw dropped; Caroline glowed; Anna pretended not to listen. Wiseman nodded, then continued.
“You mean…?” began Mary.
“Yes, it could have been so different, a meeting of like-minded earth-based spiritualities. Just imagine, what could have been?”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“Singing?” Mary would never understand Anna. The young woman turned away.
Wiseman’s reply was tinged with respect.
“That great pair of alchemists, Francis Ransome and Roberta Le More, believed the work they did affected the world’s spirit, the anima mundi. The Native Americans they met believed they too could and should interact with the Great Spirit. They lived with reverence for the land and all its peoples, the ancestors, the animals, the rocks, the trees, mountains.”
Mary’s jaw dropped; Caroline glowed; Anna pretended not to listen. Wiseman nodded, then continued.
“You mean…?” began Mary.
“Yes, it could have been so different, a meeting of like-minded earth-based spiritualities. Just imagine, what could have been?”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
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“Trust the body of your enemy. The body does not lie. Most people,” she’d looked directly at Mary, “most people do not know how to make the body lie.”
― The Sacred Well Murders
― The Sacred Well Murders
“Janet showed her teeth. “Time to get real, Sarah. No more human sacrifices, got it?”
― The Sacred Well Murders
― The Sacred Well Murders
“What about that old coot?” Janet looked suspicious. Mr. Jeffreys was from the world of officialdom she despised.”
― The Sacred Well Murders
― The Sacred Well Murders
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