Nell has had a terrible year, so she travels to North Chase to find some true Christmas magic. But the town has its own problems; its solstice festival is tainted by the disappearance of two teenage boys and a witch’s curse is blamed.
Then, nine-month-old Ava is threatened. Has a medieval killer been awoken or does something else haunt the woods?
Nell must battle through horrific nightmares and face her own demons to expose the truth before another child is spirited away. There is magic in the air this Christmas, but behind the tinsel and
baubles glitters a terrifying secret that one family has hidden for centuries, and only Nell can uncover it.
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J A Higgins was born and raised at Porton Down in Wiltshire, and currently works for the NHS in Salisbury. She has always been fascinated by history, crime and the unexplained.
A Long Time Burning is the second book in the Nell Montague Mystery series which explores how horrors from the past are still very relevant today. The first book, Finding Ruby, was a Page Turner Book Award winner in 2021.
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My thoughts: Nell decides to spend Christmas alone in North Chase, where her grandmother grew up. It’s an old place, with lots of history and traditions. Surely there she can find some peace.
But ghosts of old curses, tales of witches buried at the crossroads and other spooky stories abound and Nell, along with her friends Max and Austin, is drawn into the mysterious goings on. Is it an ancient curse or is someone very modern threatening the local lord of the manor’s baby daughter?
Full of ghosts and folk tales, North Chase ends up being the worst place Nell could have picked, and then there’s the appearance of her estranged father to contend with too. Thankfully her friends are there to help her and between them they solve some mysteries before Christmas Day is ruined by ghostly noises and modern day murder.
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