A woman named Diana has come to Tinker's Cove. She is a witch and she has opened a new store with various trinkets and the offer of psychic readings. Lucy Stone's friends are intrigued and the gals all go for a reading. Lucy doesn't believe in witches or psychics but it is a little disturbing when Diana sees nothing but bad things in Lucy's fortune. Sure enough, a couple of days later, Lucy discovers a dead body in the woods while walking with her dog. The man has been burned to death. A new neighbor, Ike Stoughton, is sure that Diana and witchcraft are to blame for the murder and everything else that is going wrong in the town. Ike's daughter, along with Lucy's girls seem caught up in the excitement of learning witchcraft, too.
I have really enjoyed the last couple of Leslie Meier books that I have read. Lucy Stone can be impetuous and find herself in dangerous situations but generally, she seems to have some common sense. Not in this book! She did some really dumb things. She also seemed to let Diana talk her into all kinds of things - staying at her house, doing witchcraft with her daughters, masquerading as her on Halloween night. The whole book seemed to have an underlying theme of tolerance for all religions which is fine but at the same time, the coven was having sex with all of the members and killing people. There is a time and place for tolerance! I was really disappointed. I'll give Lucy Stone another try but I think this was a reason I dropped this series a few years ago.
Rating - B-
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