A Hunt for Justice

Name: A Hunt for Justice
Rating: 4.4 (1957 reviews)

by John Pilkington Book 2 in the The Justice Belstrang Mysteries series.

First published 2020

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Worcestershire, 1617. Susanna Cobbett, daughter of a powerful landowner, is found dead in a woodland pond known locally as the Witching Pool. Widow Agnes Mason is accused of driving the girl to her death through witchcraft and faces execution if the charge is accepted at the Assizes.

Robert Belstrang, a sceptical former magistrate, is asked by Agnes's family to investigate. Assisted by Doctor Boyd, he examines the household and local rivalries rather than accepting supernatural explanations, uncovering crimes concealed behind the respectability of Ebbfield manor. The novel sets a murder inquiry against Jacobean beliefs about witchcraft and the legal danger faced by women labelled as witches. It was first published as The Witching Pool.