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Amanda Cadabra and The Twilight Toxin

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Amanda Cadabra and The Twilight Toxin

I had no idea back then, of course. But the path to this story began 8 years ago, when in a flash, out of the blue, and for no reason I have ever been able to discern, I knew with absolute certainty that the main characters had a strong connection with Cornwall.

I began studying the grades for the Cornish Language, and by 2020, the time was ripe for a book set there, The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr, with the certainty that this would be the springboard for a story arc with every third book set in the south west of Britain.

The fire back in the 1980s that is central to the book held the vital seed for The Twilight Toxin as events of that night inexorably draw covert witch Amanda Cadabra back to the last place she would want to visit, with the intrepid Detective Inspector Thomas Trelawney.

As the book began to come to me, some three years ago, I knew where the body was found but not their identity, nor who the killer would turn out to be, and whether justice would find them in a lethal or non-lethal manner. But last year, it started to arrive, the answer to all of these questions, the path that would take them into the heart of the enemy's lair, the ultimate test for Amanda, and where the climax would play out.

And now it unfolds for you, a body in a troubling place, an unknown murder weapon of potentially legendary power, a killer close by, watching, waiting. As the cast of loved characters gathers in a series of entertaining, even embarrassing moments, and Thomas getting to see a surprising side of his father, for a foray into the lion's den, travelling back into the past for a crucial win-or-lose two hours, Amanda and Thomas's lives are on the line.

Fortunately, Tempest, Amanda's irascible feline familiar, is on hand to lend his wry commentary, and mirth is never far away.

The series, literally, reaches new heights in this intriguing sequel, to puzzle and delight lovers of humorous fantasy mystery, where Harry Potter meets Agatha Christie, in a 'timelessly British' supernatural whodunnit. A mirthful mix of vintage and modern-day, suspense, daring and excitement, with a happy ending.

Step in to join the delightful Amanda, the superior Tempest, the attractive but by-the-book Inspector Trelawney, his amused mentor, Former Chief Inspector Hogarth, the unusual Lucy, the late aristocratic Senara and the warm-hearted Cornishman Perran, and an assemblage of suitably suspicious and villainous characters. Each individual has their own hidden depths to surprise you along the way, as you cross the border into the ancient land of Kernow.