The Widow of Pale Harbor blew my away and captured my attention just as quickly. The Widow of Pale Harbor The Orphan of Cemetary Hill Advance Praise With expert pacing, Hester Fox peels back the layers of a mystery involving modern-day museum curator Augusta Podos, and 19th century doomed witch, Margaret Harlowe, in this exquisite page-turner. This job has taken her from historic houses to fine art museums, where she has the privilege of cleaning and caring for collections that range from paintings by old masters, to ancient artefacts, to early American furniture. From her writing, to the books atmosphere, I knew that she was someone I had to pay attention to. Hester Fox comes to writing from a background in the museum field as a collections maintenance technician. Hester lives outside Boston with her husband.ĭon't miss Hester Fox's next novel, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library. With Hester Fox’s first novel The Witch of Willow Hall, she became one of my favorite authors. She is a keen painter and has a master’s degree in historical archaeology, as well as a background in medieval studies and art history. This job has taken her from historic houses to fine art museums, where she has the privilege of cleaning and caring for collections that range from paintings by old masters to ancient artifacts to early-American furniture. Hester Fox comes to writing from a background in the museum field as a collections maintenance technician. And Gabriel must find answers, or Pale Harbor will suffer a fate worthy of Poe’s darkest tales. Sophronia must be a witch, and she almost certainly killed her husband.Īs the incidents escalate, one thing becomes clear: they are the work of a twisted person inspired by the wildly popular stories of Mr. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who lives with a spinster maid in the eerie Castle Carver. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor.īut not all is as it seems in the sleepy town.

The widow of pale harbor by hester fox