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About The Witches' Bane
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Gordon Lormor is a defrocked priest and con man. And something more. He treads a path between light and dark magic, a risky journey he avoids unless he's required to take it.
But his ex-girlfriend makes a fear-laced telephone call to him, pleading that he come to Vermont and free her from a witches' coven. Gordon leaves his business, Profane Possibilities, in the care of his assistant and drives north. Death arrives before he does, and Gordon tasks himself with solving the murder and eradicating the coven. As his situation worsens, he asks for help from both his decidedly unfeminine assistant AJ and a Catholic cardinal. Death revisits often as Gordon, joined by AJ, picks open the protective scab the witches have clotted over their activities. He teeters further and further over the edges of physical and spiritual death as he struggles to prevent infant sacrifice and solve the murder of the woman he had loved. |
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WHAT READERS HAD TO SAY
Susan Crowe from Goodreads said: "I. Loved. This. Book! I saw a friend recommend it on his Facebook page and thought, why not? I like witches. I would love to read more of Gordon and AJ's story. it was only eighty something pages but I would have loved for it to have been longer. Please Edward Ahern, write more stories with these characters!"
Scarlett R Algee from Goodreads said: "The pacing is great--there's not a dull moment--and the action is handled well. The concept is a good one, and the story has some good solid moments."
Eric J. Lawrence from Amazon said: "This deserves to be a series. . . . Nice mix of genre, literary and geographical - if there is more, I will consume it happily, but only with the lights on."
Richard from Amazon said: "Another great read from Edward Ahern. Covers many emotions. The whole gamut."
Harold Hunter Bond from Amazon said: "Gordon is this gritty protagonist with a shady past searching for answers and knocking heads in along the way. He’s definitely not the good guy, but he’s the best chance good has. Gordon expects to get his hands dirty and dives right into a situation when the need arises. He’s more or less a dark hero, which are my personal favorites.
Paranormal elements within the story were about just right. I’ve read so many stories where there are all kinds of magic and mayhem going on and it’s like 'really?' Magic is a hidden thing and if it did exist in the real world it wouldn’t be over abundant. I like how there were little bits and pieces of magic within the story to make it more believable. . . . I know as a fan I really want the hear more of Gordon’s adventures."
Deborah Taylor from Amazon said: "Fun, fast witch-busting caper with a quirky anti-hero protagonist and sidekick. I polished off during two baseball games. Would read more books with AJ in them—she reminds me of the secondary characters in Janet Evanovitch’s Stephanie Plum books."
Scarlett R Algee from Goodreads said: "The pacing is great--there's not a dull moment--and the action is handled well. The concept is a good one, and the story has some good solid moments."
Eric J. Lawrence from Amazon said: "This deserves to be a series. . . . Nice mix of genre, literary and geographical - if there is more, I will consume it happily, but only with the lights on."
Richard from Amazon said: "Another great read from Edward Ahern. Covers many emotions. The whole gamut."
Harold Hunter Bond from Amazon said: "Gordon is this gritty protagonist with a shady past searching for answers and knocking heads in along the way. He’s definitely not the good guy, but he’s the best chance good has. Gordon expects to get his hands dirty and dives right into a situation when the need arises. He’s more or less a dark hero, which are my personal favorites.
Paranormal elements within the story were about just right. I’ve read so many stories where there are all kinds of magic and mayhem going on and it’s like 'really?' Magic is a hidden thing and if it did exist in the real world it wouldn’t be over abundant. I like how there were little bits and pieces of magic within the story to make it more believable. . . . I know as a fan I really want the hear more of Gordon’s adventures."
Deborah Taylor from Amazon said: "Fun, fast witch-busting caper with a quirky anti-hero protagonist and sidekick. I polished off during two baseball games. Would read more books with AJ in them—she reminds me of the secondary characters in Janet Evanovitch’s Stephanie Plum books."
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MINI-INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD AHERN ABOUT
The Witches' Bane
EDWARD AHERN
What inspired you to write this book?
My impulses about why I wrote this book is to say something wittily offhand or creatively modest, but in fact I just like telling stories, and when this concept hit me, I thought it would be fun to execute. And it was.
Who would you be if you were a character in your own book (and why)?
Gordon, of course, he gets feature billing and most of the cred. Although I have a sneaking sympathy for the head witch.
What's next on the horizon?
Short stories and poems drool out the corners of my mouth with regularity, but otherwise am flip-flopping between two longer projects, one paranormal, one noirish.
My impulses about why I wrote this book is to say something wittily offhand or creatively modest, but in fact I just like telling stories, and when this concept hit me, I thought it would be fun to execute. And it was.
Who would you be if you were a character in your own book (and why)?
Gordon, of course, he gets feature billing and most of the cred. Although I have a sneaking sympathy for the head witch.
What's next on the horizon?
Short stories and poems drool out the corners of my mouth with regularity, but otherwise am flip-flopping between two longer projects, one paranormal, one noirish.