Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Mm

... with CJ Cooke.

And i- this conversation went places I wasn't expecting.

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malice.And that sense of dread gets even darker and more sophisticated when we move into adult horror fiction.

Let's look at, uh, The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cooke.

This is set on a remote Scottish island in 1998, dealing with missing children, wildlings, and ancient grimoires.

What Cooke does so beautifully is utilize the setting.

Precisely.

So the space between that chaotic 16th century pyre and that highly regulated 21st century hospital bed, that is the exact setting of CJ Cooke's autumn 2024 novel, The Book of Witching.

An incredible piece of work.

It really is.

It just changed its clothing.

Okay, let's unpack this because to truly understand how a novelist manages to braid a brutally documented historical record into a modern police procedural, we have to understand the architect behind it.

CJ Cooke.

Yes.

Okay, let's do it.

If Marguerite is slowly losing her grip on her past, the protagonist in our next book, The Book of Witching by C.J. Cooke, wakes up entirely severed from her present.

That's terrifying.

It gets worse.