Malefice by Leslie Wilson.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars.

There’s a lot to be said for a book that lets the reader know – from the outset – that its major character ends up dead, hung as a witch.

That’s how Malefice begins: with Alice Slade dead at 50, her body washed by one of her neglected daughters. But the journey of how we get to this post-rope cleansing is a little more involved.
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