BURN, WITCH, BURN!

Richard J. Ralston, Jr. shot himself in the head. Fourth wealthy New Yorker commits suicide without apparent cause in the last three months. Police suspect a suicide club…

The novel begins as an ordinary detective story only to take off into a dark world where, again, magic reigns supreme. The beautiful witch Dahut, who travels through the ages having made the necessary deal with the black forces, is in fact an unimaginably unhappy creature, weak and vulnerable in the face of the unrequitedness of a betrayed love. Merritt, one of the best writers of fiction, manages, through a detective story, to transport the reader into a dark world where magic and otherworldly forces prevail…